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Move Over, Darling

1963 · 103 min

A frothy, fast-talking romantic farce full of mistaken identities and slapstick complications, light as air and effortlessly charming.

Directed by
Michael Gordon
Genres
Comedy, Romance
Starring
Doris Day, James Garner, Polly Bergen
Tagline
She's Married to Him... He's Married to Her... and It's Sheer Bedlam from Morning 'till Night!
Overview
Three years into their loving marriage, with two infant daughters at home in Los Angeles, Nicholas Arden and Ellen Wagstaff Arden are on a plane that goes down in the South Pacific. Although most passengers manage to survive the incident, Ellen presumably perishes when swept off her lifeboat, her body never recovered. Fast forward five years. Nicholas, wanting to move on with his life, has Ellen declared legally dead. Part of that moving on includes getting remarried, this time to a young woman named Bianca Steele, who, for their honeymoon, he plans to take to the same Monterrey resort where he and Ellen spent their honeymoon. On that very same day, Ellen is dropped off in Los Angeles by the Navy, who rescued her from the South Pacific island where she was stranded for the past five years. She asks the Navy not to publicize her rescue nor notify Nicholas as she wants to do so herself.

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Directed by
Michael Gordon
Genres
Comedy, Romance
Starring
Doris Day, James Garner, Polly Bergen
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Tone
  • lightstrength 3 of 3
  • whimsicalstrength 2 of 3
  • romanticstrength 2 of 3
  • absurdstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
brisk, 3 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
easy-watch, 2 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • love
  • family
  • identity
  • deception
  • loyalty
Places
  • big city
  • home
  • single country house
Era
contemporary
Audience
family
Form
  • single location
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language none
  • Violence none
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror0
Humour7
Realism4
Romance6
Tension3
Darkness1
Complexity3
Emotional weight3

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Details

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comedy, romance
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103 min
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United States of America
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