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April 7th, 2013: Easter Parade (1948)

Leave a comment Posted in Period Film, Romance, Comedy, Event Film, Fish-Out-of-Water, Movie of the Day, Musical, May-September, Holiday Tagged "There's No Business Like Show Business", Albert Hackett, Ann Miller, Arthur Freed, Best Music Scoring of a Musical Picture, Broadway, dance, dancers, Frances Goodrich, Fred Astaire, Irving Berlin, Judy Garland, Jules Munshin, Loew's, love triangle, make-over, MGM, New York City, Peter Lawford, pygmalion, shopping for clothes, Ziegfeld Follies

April 1st, 2013: April Fool’s Day (1986)

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2 Comments Posted in Comedy, Holiday, Horror, Movie of the Day, Mystery, Slasher, Spoof, The Original, Whodunnit Tagged Amy Steel, Charles Bernstein, Clayton Rohner, college students, Danilo Bach, Deborah Foreman, ferry, Frank Mancuso Jr., Fred Walton, island, it's not over, jack-in-the-box, Ken Olandt, low-budget, Paramount Pictures, party, prank gone awry, pranks, spoiled rich kids, Thomas F. Wilson

December 31st, 2012: Trading Places (1983)

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Leave a comment Posted in Assumed Identity, Buddy Flick, Comedy, Fish-Out-of-Water, Holiday, Movie of the Day Tagged "hooker with a heart of gold", "Not Santa!", "prince and the pauper", Al Franken, before they were famous, Best Music Nominee, bet, Bo Diddley, butler, Christmas, Christmas Eve, Christmas Party, Cinema Group, class issues, Dan Aykroyd, Denholm Elliott, Don Ameche, double cross, drugs, Eddie Murphy, Elmer Bernstein, evil businessman, frame up, Frank Oz, Giancarlo Esposito, gorilla suit, gorillas, homeless, industrial espionage, insider trading, it's not over, jail, James Belushi, James Eckhouse, Jamie Lee Curtis, John Landis, New Year's Eve, New Year's Eve Party, New York City, Paramount Pictures, Paul Gleason, prostitutes, Ralph Bellamy, Santa Claus, stock broker, Tom Davis, train, Wall Street, WASP, white collar criminals, wise servant

December 25th, 2012: Babes in Toyland aka March of the Wooden Soldiers (1934)

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Based on a Play, Black and White, Comedy, Fairy Tale, Family, Fantasy, Holiday, Movie of the Day, Musical, Slapstick Tagged boogeyman, fairy tale, Hal Roach, Hal Roach Studios, Henry Brandon, MGM, Mickey Mouse, monkey, Oliver Hardy, Stan Laurel, toy soldiers, toys, toys as weapons, Zepplin

November 28th, 2012: Auntie Mame (1958)

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Based on a Book, Based on a Play, Camp, Comedy, Coming of Age, Holiday, Movie of the Day, Period Film, The Original Tagged Adolphe Green, Best Actress Nominee, Best Art Direction Set Decoration Nominee, Best Cinematography Nominee, Best Film Editing Nominee, Best Picture Nominee, Best Supporting Actress Nominee, Betty Comden, Connecticut, Dub Taylor, Forrest Tucker, Gloria Holden, Henry Brandon, Morton DaCosta, New York City, Patrick Dennis, Patrick Knowles, Rosalind Russell

November 22nd, 2012: Home Sweet Home (1981)

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Leave a comment Posted in Holiday, Horror, Independent, Movember, Movie of the Day, Slasher, So-Bad-It's-Good Tagged before they were famous, car breakdown, cash-in, dead battery, dinner party, final girl, grindhouse, insanity, it's not over, low-budget, mimes, out of gas, PCP, record industry, rip-off, sex=death, Thanksgiving

November 5th, 2012: Attack the Block (2011)

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Leave a comment Posted in Action, Aliens, Comedy, Crime, Holiday, Movie of the Day, Sci-Fi Tagged Alex Esmail, Basement Jaxx, Franz Drameh, Jodie Whittaker, Joe Cornish, John Boyega, Jumayn Hunter, Leeon Jones, Luke Treadaway, Nick Frost, Simon Howard

October 29th, 2012: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005)

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Leave a comment Posted in Animation, Based on a TV Show, Comedy, Family, Holiday, Horror, Movie of the Day, Stop Motion Animation, Werewolves Tagged Best Animated Film

October 28th, 2012: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1949)

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Animation, Based on a Short Story(ies), Family, Ghost, Holiday, Horror, Movie of the Day, Musical, Remake, Short Tagged "And I would have gotten away with it...", Bing Crosby, Disney, farmer, farmers, ghost story, manipulative woman, RKO, teachers, Walt Disney, Washington Irving

October 2nd, 2012: It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (1966)

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Animation, Based on a Comic Strip, Ghost, Holiday, Killer Plants, Made for TV, Movie of the Day Tagged Ann Altieri, Bill Melendez, Charles M. Schulz, Christopher Shea, Emmy nominee - Outstanding Children's Program, Emmy nominee - Special Classifications of Individual Achievements, Gabrielle DeFaria Ritter, Glenn Mendelson, Kathy Steinberg, Lisa DeFaria, Peter Robbins, Sally Dryer, Vince Guaraldi

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