#1. George Washington Slept Here (1942)

Storyline: New Yorkers Bill and Connie Fuller have to move from their apartment. Without Bill's knowledge, Connie purchases a delapidated old farmhouse in Pennsylvania, where George Washington was supposed to have actually slept during the American Revolution. Much of the humor comes from the couple's many problems they encounter while trying to fix up the place.—Daniel Bubbeo <dbubbeo@cmp.com>

Plot Keywords: husband, wife, home owner, repairman, neighbor, uncle, madcap ...

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#2. Heartburn (1986)

Storyline: An autobiographical look at the break-up of Screenwriter Nora Ephron's marriage to Carl "All the President's Men" Bernstein that was also a best-selling novel. The Ephron character, Rachel Samstat (Meryl Streep), is a food writer at a New York City magazine who meets Washington, D.C. columnist Mark Forman (Jack Nicholson) at a wedding and ends up falling in love with him despite her reservations about marriage. They buy a house, have a daughter, and Rachel thinks they are living happily ever after until she discovers that Mark is having an affair while she is waddling around with a second pregnancy.—Lisa Todorovich

Plot Keywords: food critic, columnist, daughter, journalist, cheeky, emotional, sad ...

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