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Arsenic and Old Lace
Comedy, Crime
Mortimer Brewster, a newspaper drama critic, playwright, and author known for his diatribes against marriage, suddenly falls in love and gets married; but when he makes a quick trip home to tell his two maiden aunts, he finds out his aunts' hobby - killing lonely old men and burying them in the cellar!
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers who enjoy macabre farce, rapid-fire misunderstandings, and theatrical comedy that treats grisly behavior with cheerful absurdity.
- Tone
- darkly comic, playful, satirical
- Payoff
- amusement, catharsis
- Pacing
- brisk
- Intensity
- moderate
- Structure
- linear
- Themes
- family madness, marriage, murder, moral absurdity, secrecy
- Setting
- mid-twentieth-century, eccentric family townhouse and adjoining cemetery
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