Arsenic and Old Lace
“She Passed Out On Cary! No Wonder . . . She's just discovered his favorite aunts have poisoned their 13th gentleman friend!”
ComedyCrime
Mortimer Brewster, a newspaper drama critic, playwright, and author known for his diatribes against marriage, suddenly falls in love and gets married; but when he makes a quick trip home to tell his two maiden aunts, he finds out his aunts' hobby - killing lonely old men and burying them in the cellar!
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This film is a delightful, frantic romp through a house of charming madness. It feels like a perfectly choreographed, darkly humorous play, where witty banter and escalating absurdity collide with a surprisingly cozy macabre sensibility. Expect a whirlwind of eccentric characters and hilariously morbid situations.
farcicalmacabrewittychaoticdarkly comedicfreneticscrewball comedyclassic Hollywoodstage play adaptationwitty dialoguefamily secretstwisted moralityinsanitydeception
poisoncemeteryinsanitycellarmarriagehalloweenmurderserial killerwritercorpsecritic
