I Love You Again [VHS]

I Love You Again [VHS]
by W.S. Van Dyke

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Actor: Donald Douglas, Frank McHugh, Myrna Loy, Nella Walker, William Powell
Director: W.S. Van Dyke
Producer: Lawrence Weingarten
Writer: Charles Lederer
Writer: George Oppenheimer
Writer: Harry Kurnitz
Writer: Leon Gordon
Writer: Maurine Dallas Watkins
Writer: Octavus Roy Cohen
Edition: VHS Tape
Audio: English (Original Language), Analog
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, NTSC
Running Time: 99 minutes
Release Date: 1998-09-01
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Publisher: MGM (Warner)
Studio: MGM (Warner)

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Movie Review: Class & Wit Never Go Out of Style
Summary: 5 Stars

Watching a classic screwball comedy like I LOVE YOU AGAIN is a sobering reminder that the truly witty comedy of the pre-WWII era is a lost art. In the world of the screwball, the characters inhabit a universe vastly different from any other. This universe is replete with characters who are witty, memorable, and possessed of a sure sense of timing that makes their entrances and exits seem anything but staged. We who watch the events see tham as improbable but the magic of the genre is that this knowledge does not intrude on our enjoyment of it.

William Powell and Myrna Loy had collaborated on several Thin Man films, all of which occupied a universe of comedy and wit not far removed from that of the screwball. By 1940, the audience had been well primed to accept the unlikely events on the screen in a manner that would seem puzzling to moderns, but only for the first few minutes. After that, the viewer of today and the viewer of then become indistinguishable.

Powell plays Larry Wilson, who is returning home from an ocean voyage. He has been married for nine years and is a boring, thoroughly conventional middle America dullard. He gets whacked on the head by an oar, and gets amnesia, but this amnesia is not the kind that results in lost memory but in memory restored. It seems that nine years ago, he received a similar smack and entered the realm of memory lost. He married Myrna Loy to begin a boring life on every level possible. He has spent this time as a low key Dagwood Bumstead. With the second head hitting, his original self comes out. This self is that of the con man, a suave and smoothtalking rip off artist. He pals up with another con artist, well played by Frank McHugh, and at this point the screwball antics begin. The film is full of scenes that allow Powell to show his deft sense of timing. He alternates between greed and altruism in a manner that leaves one breathless. His wife Kay (Loy) plans to divorce the stuffy shirt she has married, but as Powell sheds his Norman Rockwell skin, she begins to fall in love with him all over again. Though I LOVE YOU AGAIN has numerous scenes of Powell sliding in and out of trouble, he has no more trouble convincing his wife of his "true" nature than he does with the audience. This film, like one of Shakespeare's light comedies, transports both cast and audience into a parallel universe where true evil does not exist, harmless evil does, and the improbable seems increasingly less so with each passing scene. I LOVE YOU AGAIN is a joy where we again can join this universe, even if for only a few precious minutes.

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