Anthony P. Kirby (Edward Arnold) wants to build a monopoly in weapons production. Only thing is, he needs to buy twelve blocks of land that a fellow businessman was going to use for a factory in order to force a merge with said businessman. It's easy enough to buy eleven of the blocks he needs, but one stubborn old man named Martin Vanderhof (Lionel Barrymore) won't leave the house on his block. Vanderhof's family and one or two of his friends live with him, and all of them are a little strange. Except Alice (Jean Arthur), his granddaughter, who is also A.P. Kirby's son Tony's (James Stewart) fiancee. Needless to say, things become a little crazy before everything is straightened out.
Pros: I really like Jimmy Stewart. It's pretty funny. The people who live in the Vanderhof house are hilarious, from Alice's mother Penny (Spring Byington), who thinks she's a playwright, to the cook's fiance Donald (Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson), who's an off-beat sort of guy. The message of the movie is great - do what you love or you'll never really be happy.
Cons: Alice's sister Essie (Ann Miller) is really annoying.
My Rating: AGC
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