Doris Day was nearing her popular zenith, and Jack Lemmon just hitting his stride, when they teamed up for It Happened to Jane, a small-town comedy in the Capra vein. Doris is a widowed mom whose Maine lobster business is snarled by railroad tycoon Ernie Kovacs (hiding behind a skullcap and a huge cigar), the "meanest man in America." Her lawsuit against him, aided by lawyer-su...
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Doris Day was nearing her popular zenith, and Jack Lemmon just hitting his stride, when they teamed up for It Happened to Jane, a small-town comedy in the Capra vein. Doris is a widowed mom whose Maine lobster business is snarled by railroad tycoon Ernie Kovacs (hiding behind a skullcap and a huge cigar), the "meanest man in America." Her lawsuit against him, aided by lawyer-suitor Lemmon, gains national headlines. This is a curious movie: crucial scenes seem to have been left unwritten, while sequences involving Cub Scouts and an oddly impassioned Town Hall Meeting go on endlessly. Director Richard Quine was making some fun movies around this time (Bell, Book, and Candle), but the fizz is only intermittent here, mostly provided by Lemmon's jack-in-the-box youthfulness. Doris sings a couple of tunes and brings her downhome tomboy routine to New York City, where the movie employs some of the quaint TV personalities of the day. --Robert Horton
Synopsis
Jane is a widow who manages her own lobster business, as a means of providing for her two children. When a railroad trashes a shipment of her goods, she sets her lawyer onto them to claim compensation...
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2 有用 [] 看过 2019-10-22 08:42:43
[彩色]甜蜜字幕组；射手SRT外挂中字@ KEVIN
2 有用 Caneloni 看过 2019-05-16 02:11:45
小镇故事不是邪恶到极点就是童话到极点，没有中间状态……
1 有用 1900 看过 2020-03-01 14:24:15
喜欢上了安娜角的小镇生活，片中女主的女儿那坚定地小眼神和结实的小身板，一声铿锵有力的“Mum”，实在是太可爱了。
0 有用 可以证明 看过 2020-06-12 13:41:24
挺喜欢它的。关于卖龙虾引发的抗争故事。关乎个人利益没有小事。在抗争中对立的双方其实可以对话。之所以是美国梦，因为美国人才会对什么权益属于自己斤斤计较。
0 有用 上个云吞Liu 看过 2018-06-06 09:47:21
龙虾特快对决大资本家，最后奇妙和解。一个美梦！