TV/Movies Megathread

[Admiral Yi]

Just watched Manchester by the Sea.  Casey Affleck won best actor for playing man with tragic past tryiing to deal with tragic past.  Beautiful and heartbreaking.

[celedhring]

Manchester by the Sea is up there in my "saddest movies of all time" list.

[Josquius]

The title just irks me. I can't help but think of Manchester Manchester.
Saltburn is similar. But at least it doesn't include a geographically incorrect descriptor.

[garbon]

The title just irks me. I can't help but think of Manchester Manchester.
Saltburn is similar. But at least it doesn't include a geographically incorrect descriptor.

[Savonarola]

The Palm Beach Story (1942)

And they all lived happily ever after, or did they?

Joel McCrea is a down on his luck inventor and his wife, Claudette Colbert, decides that she's holding him back, so she comes to Palm Beach for a divorce.  On the train, after a number of misadventures, she meets a thinly veiled caricature of John D. Rockefeller played by Rudy Vallee.  Joel McCrea flies down to stop the divorce where he meets Vallee's five-times married sister (in order to make it acceptable to the Production Code, two of her marriages had been annulled), played by Mary Astor.  Colbert and McCrea pretend to be brother and sister; in comedies of this era the divorce can't go through so they get back together, but, as luck would have it both Colbert and McCrea have identical twins.  And they all lived happily ever after, or did they?

That's quite a cast, and Colbert is always a delight and it's one of Preston Sturges's fine screwball comedies. I didn't know Florida was a place for quickee divorces in the 1940s.