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You Can't Take it With You

Rating:No Rating
Genre:Comedy, Romance
Release Date:August 23, 1938
Running time:126 minutes
Cast:Jean Arthur, Lionel Barrymore, James Stewart, Edward Arnold, Mischa Auer
Director:Frank Capra
Producer:Frank Capra
Writer:Robert Riskin
Distributor:Columbia Pictures

Description: Martin Vanderhof is the eccentric patriarch of a clan of frustrated artists, who decided thirty years ago to retire from the rat-race and encourage his family to follow their dreams. He paints, badly, but is happy, and his children pursue various strange hobbies. Only Alice has a normal job, working as a receptionist in the offices of a somewhat shady businessman. She falls in love with her boss's son, who fears that his dour father would never approve of a marriage to the crazed Vanderhof family. The family tried to act normal for one night to impress the prospective in-laws, but it all goes horribly wrong.

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