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Trouble seems to follow know-it-all Judy Maxwell Barbra Streisand wherever she goes. This time it takes the form of Howard Bannister Ryan O'Neal a musicologist attending a convention where he's competing for a grant that will allow him to study the musical properties of certain igneous rocks. Judy pursues Howard despite his protests and his overbearing fiance Eunice Burns Madeline Kahn begins to question his motives. To make matters more confusing there are four identical plaid overnight cases circulating through the Bristol Hotel: one contains diamonds and jewelry another holds top-secret government files a third is filled with Judy's clothes and the fourth Howard's rocks. As the hotel detective tries to steal the case of jewelry an agent hunts the man who holds the secret papers while the last two suitcases naturally find their way into the wrong hands in this caper-of-errors. After a sidesplitting chase through the streets of San Francisco the entire mess gets sorted out in the courtroom of a tense judge w

Two southern-fried gold-digging Georgia peaches also known as "Black American Princesses" hit Hollywood to audition for a music video to raise cash. But they really hit the jackpot when the director's unctuous nephew involves them in a scam to trick his wealthy old employer into believing that one of the B.A.P.s is his long-lost love's granddaughter.

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A down-and-out big-city reporter Richard Gere in a last-ditch effort to save his tarnished career chases a scoop on a mercurial small-town girl Julia Roberts known as the Runaway Bride due to her habit of leaving her grooms-to-be on the alter. Director Marshall once again directs the stars who made his PRETTY WOMAN a worldwide smash in 1990.

Kindhearted lawyer Glenda's Goldie Hawn desire to lend a helping hand is evident in the number of stray dogs she has taken in. Her husband Ira Charles Grodin is a stuffy district attorney with designs on political office. When her ex-husband Nick Chevy Chase a writer who has been forced to rob a bank shows up on her doorstep seeking refuge from the authorities she takes him in--spurring a serious of painfully comedic situations as she attempts to keep him hidden from uptight Ira. Razor sharp timing from a trio of comedic heavyweights propels this descendent of 1930s screwball romantic comedies from Neil Simon.

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The definitive screwball comedy, My Man Godfrey follows the madcap antics of a wealthy and eccentric family when they hire a down-and-out "forgotten man" as their butler. My Man Godfrey features brilliant performances by Carole Lombard and William Powell, and was the first film to receive Academy Award?? nominations in all four acting categories.