Arsenic and Old Lace

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1944 PG-13 1h 58m
7.6 /10
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Arsenic and Old Lace
Arsenic and Old Lace
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Mortimer Brewster, a newspaper drama critic, playwright, and author known for his diatribes against marriage, suddenly falls in love and gets married; but when he makes a quick trip home to tell his two maiden aunts, he finds out his aunts' hobby - killing lonely old men and burying them in the cellar!

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FilipeManuelNeto
3 Dec 2023

**An extraordinary comedy that stands out for its unpretentiousness.** I didn't have high expectations when I decided to watch this film, and I thi...

barrymost
19 Jan 2020

There are thirteen bodies in the cellar! Oh, piffle. Drama critic Mortimer Brewster has just gotten married. But his newfound wedded bliss is int...

John Chard
1 Jul 2019

Frenetic roller-coaster ride - Capra style! The Broadway show this film is based on ran for something like four years, such was the yearning for ri...

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