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Between world wars, the Whittaker's estate is sinking; only the iron will of Mrs. Whittaker staves off bankruptcy while she awaits her son John's return from the continent. To her dismay, he brings a bride: an American widow who races cars. The bride, Larita, thinks she and John will visit and then go to London, where he'll work and she'll race. But John is to the manor born, and mother is nothing if not a master at plans and manipulation. Soon it's all-out war between mother and bride, with John's father, a burnt out veteran of the Great War, in the bride's corner ineffectually. Mother has a plan to join with th...
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e neighboring estate; only Larita is in her way. Can't we all get along?
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Noel Coward's enduring wit translates nicely to the screen with this adaptation of his classic play. Jessica Biel (THE ILLUSIONIST) stars as Larita, an American beauty who weds proper Brit John Whittaker (Ben Barnes, THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA: PRINCE CASPIAN). Though the couple is excited about their marriage, John's parents (played by Colin Firth and Kristin Scott Thomas) think that the match leaves much to be desired. An earlier silent version was directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
A glamorous American woman enters into a spirited battle of wits with her disapproving English mother-in-law in this period romantic comedy. John Whittaker (Ben Barnes) and Larita Huntington (Jessica Biel) married in haste following a whirlwind romance. But reality comes knocking when the couple arrives to visit John's parents and his mother has an allergic reaction to her new daughter-in-law. As the battle of wits between the two women escalates, John and Larita's marriage begins to suffer.
John Whittaker (Ben Barnes), een jonge Engelsman, valt voor de Amerikaanse Larita (Jessica Biel) en besluit met haar te trouwen. Maar wanneer hij haar meeneemt naar zijn ouderlijk huis om zijn ouders te ontmoeten, treffen ze daar geen warme ontvangst aan. In plaats daarvan blijkt zijn moeder (Kristin Scott Thomas) zelfs een hekel aan zijn vrouw te hebben.