We started to watch The Electric Horseman the other night; after about 40 minutes we gave up on it (maybe we just weren't in the right mood) as we felt it was dragging and not particularly funny.
Caroline's parting comment as we turned it off - "Well. it's always good to see Robert Redford". She too is a great admirer of Clint
To Kill a Mockingbird is, indeed, a very fine drama, but not sure I'd put it in the "happy" category; just as A Man for All Seasons (1966, Paul Scofield's Oscar for best actor was just one of a whole bunch of awards) is widely recognised as probably the best British film drama ever made, but it's certainly not a happy film. As an aside, I didn't know until now that it was remade in 1988 - another remake that begs the question "why?"
As Americans, you might appreciate the nonsense of
The Mouse that Roared (Peter Sellers again, in three roles), a satirical comedy from 1959. From IMDB:
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An impoverished backward nation declares a war on the United States of America, hoping to lose, but things don't go according to plan.
It's probably an age thing, but we see trailers on TV for new comedy films and our reaction is very often "that's supposed to be funny?"
