February Movie Night – Cheap Date
The month of love is just around the corner and lets face it with the economy the way it is, gas prices starting to climb, and no good movies on slate for the theaters, everyone needs a cheap date (or at least a night out). Have no fear February Movie Night is almost here, February 12th at 7pm with the movie starting at 8 pm, to be exact. So, let us celebrate the hallmark month of love with some classic romantic comedies that both sexes will love, or like a little, and will be light on your pocket books/purses/wallets.
Below are descriptions of the four choices and then the ever importing polling place after. Please remember that it is your civic, no I must say moral duty to vote if you plan on coming! (That way no one can complain and ask for a movie that does not fall within the movie night theme *cough* Air Force One *cough*)
Industrious tycoon Linus Larrabee (Humphrey Bogart) has no room for love in his appointment book. But when a burgeoning romance between his libertine brother David (William Holden) and the family chauffeur's daughter, Sabrina Fairchild (Audrey Hepburn), jeopardizes Linus' pending business merger, the workaholic CEO clears his calendar to derail the dalliance. The film collected an Academy Award for Best Costume Design.
Of all the "gin joints" in Morocco, Ilsa (Ingrid Bergman), with husband Victor (Paul Henreid) in tow, had to walk into the one owned by Rick (Humphrey Bogart), a former beau she abandoned in Paris. War looms over them all, and in a much-discussed ending, Rick and Ilsa make heroic but heartbreaking choices. As time goes by, director Michael Curtiz's 1942 classic war noir only gets better. Peter Lorre and Claude Rains also star.
Audrey Hepburn (in an Oscar-winning performance) stars as a cosseted European princess who goes AWOL in Rome and is soon taken under the wing of tabloid journalist Gregory Peck and his photographer sidekick Eddie Albert. She thinks the boys don't suspect who she really is … but they're clued in and sense a sensational story if they can just keep Audrey's handlers from retrieving her too soon. The essence of 1950s chic.
Socialite Tracy Lord (Katharine Hepburn) prepares to remarry, but her ex (Cary Grant) and a tabloid reporter (Best Supporting Actor Oscar-winner James Stewart) have other ideas as they converge on her home for a fateful visit. The three stars form an incomparable romantic triangle in one of the most tantalizing screwball romances ever. Ace Hollywood women's director George Cukor adapts this urbane Broadway comedy with precision and wit.
Now that you know the movie selections inside and out please vote below. Voting will close on Saturday, February 7th at 11:59 pm.
January 29th, 2009 - 11:42
Come on people, give it up for Casablanca, which is my favorite movie of all time. If you’ve never seen it, you need to see and if you’ve seen it, you need to see it again!