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Alan Hewitt, Claire Trevor, Eddie Mayehoff

"Being married is the normal way to live... isn't it?" The note of doubt at the end of that statement is fully exploited in How to Murder Your Wife (1965), a barbed piece of war-between-the-sex...( read more  read more... )es comedy. Cartoonist Jack Lemmon, an exponent of the Playboy philosophy, lives in the ultimate swinging bachelor townhouse ("Everything masculine and perfect," manservant Terry-Thomas says approvingly) until a drunken evening leads to marriage with an Italian bombshell (Virna Lisi). What to do? The whole movie seems to exist in order to arrive at Lemmon's clever courtroom oration in the final half-hour, which is tartly funny if datedly misogynistic: he unleashes a male fantasy of trashing the gray-flannel suit and late-model station wagon for Hefneresque freedom. The wheel-spinning of the early reels is curious coming from screenwriter George Axelrod, usually a reliable satirist. He had better hours than this, notably in Breakfast at Tiffany's and Lord Love a Duck. --Robert Horton

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Unrated, 109 min.

Directed by: Richard Quine

Release Date: January 1, 1965

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DVD Release Date: October 15, 2002

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  • kenstachnik
    December 24, 2008
    kenstachnik
    Tons of shovanistic fun
  • sainttom93
    March 1, 2008
    sainttom93
    This has got to be the FUNNIEST movie I've ever seen -- one of my all-time favorites
  • nicholsonisgod
    January 2, 2009
    nicholsonisgod
    Ive heard it's really good. It looks really funny. These old classics have the best acting bar-none
  • pjupitermoon
    October 2, 2008
    pjupitermoon
    I almost died watching him come up with his schemes
  • smileinyoursleep7
    June 5, 2008
    smileinyoursleep7
    One of my personal favorites
  • jazzmonk
    May 10, 2008
    jazzmonk
    Haven't seen it in ages, but I remember it was a hoot.

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