A New Leaf (1971), The Man in the White Suit (1951), Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (1964), The Green Man (1957), The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947), Capricious Summer (1968), Lost in Yonkers (1993), Brighton Beach Memoirs (1986) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Humoristic Literature On Screen movies.
Storyline: Leaving home, young Buddy Baker arrives unannounced at the luxurious Manhattan apartment of his older brother, Alan, a swinging girl chasing bachelor who prefers his carefree life to working in the family business. Pleased at his brother's show of independence, Alan introduces him to New York night life. Their father is unhappy at Alan's mentoring and the loss of an important account. Buddy is so successful that he soon takes over his brother's liquor cabinet and his girl friends. After giving up a woman who lives in the same building, Alan gets beaten by the husband of another conquest. Scared off, Alan alienates his favorite girl friend, Connie, staying away from all commitment. Hit by the futility of his life, Alan urges Buddy to end his swinging life style, but Buddy is having too good a time. After their argument jolts Alan proposes to Connie. Following their marriage, Alan helps their parents reconcile, works seriously in the family business and turns his bachelor pad over to his brother.—laird-3
Plot Keywords: new york city, based on play, reference to ernest hemingway, punched in the face, martini, traffic jam, hypnosis ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: George Schneider is an author whose wife had just died. His brother Leo gives him the number of Jennie Malone, and somehow they hit it off, and just when things are moving along, the memory of his first wife comes between them.—<rcs0411@yahoo.com>
Plot Keywords: literature on screen, monologue, love, loss of wife, husband wife relationship, guilt, friendship ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: TV personality Robert Danvers, an exceedingly vain rotter, seduces young women daily, never staying long with one. He meets his match in 19-year-old American Marion, who is available but refuses any romantic illusions. Her candor and cynicism put him off at first, but after he sees her breaking up with her rocker boyfriend, he's attracted to her and invites her on an idyllic fortnight in France. She slowly pokes holes in his artifice and he comes to care for her. When they return to Londonwith the press thinking they're married, they come to a crossroads: go back to their old lives, marry each other, or invent a new, open relationship. Is Robert up to it?—<jhailey@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: lust, female frontal nudity, female rear nudity, female nudity, sex on couch, sex in bed, adultery ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The eldest daughter of a Professor of Psychology at a large conservative university causes havoc, and great embarrassment, for her father with her free-willed and uninhibited lifestyle.
Plot Keywords: newlyweds, fight, drinking coffee, secret, invitation, private investigation, investigation ...
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