Unfinished Business |
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“I’ve been settled all my life. I’d like to get unsettled.”
-Nancy
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Director Starring |
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Surprisingly pretty good… I didn’t think I had any more particularly good ones ahead of me. Plot is contrived (small-town girl — Dunne either playing WAY below her age or this is just a terribly, terribly late bloomer — chucks Ohio, heads to New York to seek a career — yes, please! — gets picked up by a guy on the train and dumped at the station. She marries his brother; all sorts of complications arise; she falls in love with his brother. Happily ever after!) and half of the contrivances just don’t make sense (ie, all the “unfinished business” ..business). But it’s lovely, a charmer, frequently funny, and I probably have to get my head examined after seeing so many of these and knowing the formula too well, but I still get caught up in the romantic tension of it all and feel fully the climactic resolution. I’m entirely too easy.
By the way, this is true, and a serious characterization problem:
“Miss Dunne, even though she must combine the naivete of Cinderella with devastating wit of Dorothy Parker, is charming.”
-NY Times
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