A New Leaf (Blu-ray) G

"Do you take this woman?" "Yes, for everything she's got."
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  • Rated: G
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 42 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: September 4, 2012
  • Originally Released: 1971
  • Label: Olive

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Rating: 3/5 -- In some ways a throwback to the screwball comedies of the 1930s, A NEW LEAF often recalls several of them in its satire, inventiveness and wit. Full Review
TV Guide
Jan 8, 2019
Rating: 4/4 -- A film of such wit and comic invention that it belongs among the great American comedies. Full Review
Village Voice
Dec 13, 2013
Elaine May's directorial debut still makes for cherishable comedy viewing precisely because she eschewed the modish flash her former cabaret partner Mike Nichols brought to his movie-making. Full Review
Time Out
Jan 26, 2006
It's sophisticated and funny, adroitly put together for the most part. Full Review
Variety
Mar 26, 2009
Rating: 4/5 -- This character study should not be as funny as it is. Full Review
Empire Magazine
Jan 8, 2019
A New Leaf is a silly movie and I mean that as a compliment. It is silly as in fun and escape and lotsa laughs and as in "people go to the movies to be entertained" -- and why not? It is whacky and it is full of wacky people. Full Review
Cleveland Press
Jan 22, 2019
Rating: 7/10 -- Director Elaine May belongs to that list of otherwise male creative geniuses who naturally clash with the commercial system, including Erich Von Stroheim, Orson Welles, and Otto Preminger. Full Review
PopMatters
Jan 8, 2019

Product Description:

Henry Graham (Walter Matthau) is a man with a problem: he has run through his entire inheritance, and is completely unequipped to provide for himself. His childhood guardian, Uncle Harry (a deliciously mean-spirited James Coco), refuses to give him a dime, and Henry, completely unwilling to exercise the only solution he sees--suicide-- devises a plan with the help of his imaginative butler: he can make money the old-fashioned way--he can marry it. With a temporary loan from Uncle Harry to tide him over, Henry has six weeks to find a bride, marry her, and repay the money, or else he must forfeit all his property to his uncle. With only days remaining, Henry meets clumsy, painfully shy heiress Henrietta Lowell (played by director Elaine May). She's the answer to his prayers--if only Henry can overcome the obstacles placed in his path by Uncle Harry, Henrietta's lawyer, and Henry's own reluctance to wed.
In writer/director Elaine May's (known for her collaboration as a stage comedienne with THE GRADUATE director Mike Nichols) freshman directing effort, she directs a strong cast, in addition to herself in the lead female role. Written for the screen by May from a short story by Jack Ritchie, this black comedy features hilarious performances by its two leads, as well as the wonderfully dry George Rose as Matthau's overly involved, but always proper, butler.

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