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I Love You, Man; The Class; Icons of Screwball Comedy: Vols. 1 & 2
I Love You, Man
(Paramount, $29.99)
Starring Paul Rudd and Jason Segel, this film about the importance of male bonding “has its heart in the right place,” said The Seattle Times. Writer-director John Hamburg incorporated the usual juvenile gags into a pseudo-romantic comedy, minus the typical “Mars vs. Venus conflict.”
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The Class
(Sony, $28.96)
This adaptation of François Bégaudeau’s novel, about a teacher in inner-city Paris, is a “vibrant example of humanist cinema,” said the Los Angeles Times. The film explores the classroom as a “microcosm of society in which prevailing tensions and inequalities are crystallized.”
Icons of Screwball Comedy: Vols. 1 & 2
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(Sony, $49.92)
The eight films in this collection may not be “classics,” but are still “breezy, boozy fun,” said Entertainment Weekly. Starring Irene Dunne, Fred MacMurray, and others, lesser-known titles such as Theodora Goes Wild will bust your gut with their “clinking highballs and dizzy misunderstandings.”
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