A New Leaf (Olive Signature) (Blu-ray) G
"Do you take this woman?" "Yes, for everything she's got."
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: G
- Run Time: 1 hours, 42 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region A
- Released: December 5, 2017
- Originally Released: 1971
- Label: Olive
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Walter Matthau & Elaine May | |
Performer: | Jack Weston, James Coco, David Doyle, Renée Taylor & Doris Roberts | |
Directed by | Elaine May | |
Edited by | Fredric Steinkamp & Don Guidice | |
Screenwriting by | Elaine May | |
Composition by | Neal Hefti | |
Cinematography by | Gayne Rescher | |
Produced by | Hillard Elkins, Howard W. Koch & Joseph Manduke |
Entertainment Reviews:
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.
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PopMatters
Rating: 4/4 --
One of the funniest movies of our unfunny age.
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Chicago Sun-Times
Studio intervention preserves a quite lucid, strange, effervescent morality play pitched from May's unique purview outside either sentimentality or cynicism.
Film Comment
Rating: 4/5 --
A Manhattan fairy tale with a wonderfully mordant edge.
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Radio Times
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.
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Cleveland Press
Rating: 4/5 --
This character study should not be as funny as it is.
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Empire Magazine
It's sophisticated and funny, adroitly put together for the most part.
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Variety
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.
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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- UPC: 887090601603
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