Christmas in Connecticut
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Movie Reviews of Christmas in Connecticut
Movie Review: A favorite Christmas oldie
Summary: 5 Stars
I first saw this years ago, and it gets better with every viewing. Barbara Stanwyck is Elizabeth Lane, a magazine columnist/domestic goddess/perfect wife + mother -- the Martha Stewart of 1945 -- who's a total fraud. Single, childless and a terrible cook, she bangs out her columns in her city apartment while wolfing down sardines beside a window view of her laundry drying against a downscale Manhattan skyline. When her clueless publisher insists she and her "husband" take in a war hero for the holidays at their "Connecticut farmhouse," it's a mad scramble to come up with hubby, hearth and baby in time to save her career. And when she finds herself falling for the visiting sailor (a dashing Dennis Morgan), her best-laid plans unravel deliciously. S.Z. Sakall is her Uncle Felix --a gourmet chef who cheerfully abets her homemaker column -- and Reginald Gardiner is perfection as John Sloan, her stolid, thoroughly unappetizing faux husband.Movie Review: Not On DVD???...CAT-A-STROPH!
Summary: 5 Stars
"Christmas In Connecticut": You've already read the Amazon reviews, written in 1000 words or less, so I won't rehash the previous rehash. "Christmas In Connecticut" is 5-Star all the way. Here's why:
1) The fashions, the cars, the war bonds drive, the music, the furniture...is there anything in this film that doesn't scream 1945?
2) There are more classic (and perfectly understated) one-liners than any other Christmas comedy of the era.
3) The supporting cast includes many of your favorite 1940s character actors.
4) Barbara Stanwyck!
5) It snows at all the right moments.
This is the perfect Christmas movie to watch while lounging on the Lazy Boy (the chair - not your husband) with the gift Aunt Martha sent you: the family-size can filled with carmel popcorn, cheddar cheese popcorn, and the mystery flavor you can't quite identify.
Movie Review: Christmas would not be complete without this great movie
Summary: 5 Stars
This is one of my all time favorite holiday movies. Barbara Stanwyck is lovely in her designer collection outfits and the story is both heartwarming and funny. The character actors add so much to this as a single New Yorker who lives in a small apartment, can't cook, pretends to have a house in Connecticut with a make-believe baby and husband, acting as a "Martha Stewart"-ish writer of Smart Housekeeping magazine. Dennis Morgan is so good looking and good natured as the handsome Navy man, rescued from a lifeboat at sea. It's the twists and turns in the story and the interaction between the various characters that make this movie special. This tangled web of deception and truth will be enjoyed as a romantic movie to be enjoyed by both men and women. Christmas in ConnecticutMovie Review: A classic movie you can watch again and again
Summary: 5 Stars
Our whole family loves this movie. Barbara Stanwyck plays a writer who pretends to be married with a baby and pretends she's an expert at cooking, sewing, and overall home-making. Her boss decides that she should have a recovering military man to her country home (which she doesn't have) for Christmas so he can experience cozy home-life over the holidays. Then, her boss manages to invite himself along, too! She feels sure she's just lost her job and this will be the worst Christmas ever.... but a male friend of hers (who has been pestering her to marry him for a while) convinces her to marry him and they can have everyone to HIS home in the country. Of course, she doesn't love him.... and she ends up in love with the military man.... It's one problem after another, making this movie a real hoot!Movie Review: An American Classic
Summary: 5 Stars
For many years I would wait every Christmas to watch this movie with my mother. This is one of her two favorites(White Christmas is the other) and it quickly became one of mine. It is a movie that shows life as we make it, but in a much simplier time. Before the e-mails, cell phones, and all the other electronic things we take for granted today. It is a feel good movie that makes you sit back, relax, and wish that you were able to put yourself into the movie. You laugh with and at the characters and their situations. It is a movie that carries itself perfectly in black & white. You appreciate the simplier things and are glad that Turner never got his hands on this one. The re-make is a very, very disappointing attempt to bring a wholesome holiday from the past into our times.