Grass Is Greener (Widescreen): Amazon.ca: Cary Grant, Deborah Kerr, Robert Mitchum, Jean Simmons, Moray Watson, Joan Benham, Elisabeth Orion, Gwen Watford, Stanley Donen, Hugh Williams, Margaret Vyner: DVD

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Cary Grant is the befuddled English earl casually puttering around his tourist attraction of a grand old estate in casual dress while a bull of an American millionaire (Robert Mitchum) crashes into his life and seduces Grant's sophisticated lady (Deborah Kerr). It's pure fantasy, of course, with its cool, cultured lovers swapping witty banter with the same calm they swap gunshots in an old-fashioned duel. Have adultery and jealousy ever been so civilized? Stanley Donen never shakes this very British drawing-room comedy of manners free of its talky, stagebound source or its deliberate snail's pace, but he does manages to bring a lightness that softens the wit with an American lilt. Ultimately, though, it's all about a crack cast in fine form: Mitchum's sleepy-eyed insolence, Kerr's easy elegance, Jean Simmons's flighty outrageousness, and especially the charm and measured grace that is Cary Grant. --Sean Axmaker

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1.0 out of 5 stars not worth it!, Jun 2 2004

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C. Krolyn "cserka" (Hungary) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Grass Is Greener (Widescreen) (DVD)

I bought this film, because
1. I like Stanley Donen (Singin' in the rain etc.)
2. I especially love Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr
3. I think Jean Simmons is a pretty fine actress
BUT
I must say that this film wasn't worth seeing it. The story was about nothing, there wasn't any interesting plot.
I admit there was one or two funny scene (for example when the two couple telephoned to each other or the pistol duel) but the rest there were long and boring without any humour.

If you like interesting films: buy All about Eve, or if you like Cary Grant or Deborah Kerr as I do: buy anything else...

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1.0 out of 5 stars Unforgettable (Unfortunately), May 27 2003

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Ray Cassavaugh (Saranac Lake, NY United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Grass Is Greener (Widescreen) (DVD)

This movie survives in my memory for over 40 years as one of the most boring stupid excuses for a comedy ever made. I use it as a benchmark to compare all other really bad comedies. They are either worse than this one (rare) or better than this one. As an example: Buffalo '66 is worse. If you watch both in the same day, you will surely die.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Sticky Bits of Paper, Nov 21 2002

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Kelly K. Coyle "generally annoyed" (Michigan) - See all my reviews
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What a wonderful movie. Who could ask for more, with a cast including Cary Grant and Robert Mitchum? Not to mention a duel, a missing mink coat, mushrooms, British manors and fishing?

A wonderful romance, that shows how fate and middle age can come together and create havoc on the seemingly happy, if not a bit dull, life of a settled English couple, whose large country estate doubles as a tourist atrraction to support itself. (with lots of American tourists who leave apple cores and sticky bits of paper all over the grounds!)
To make ends meet, the wife also happens to run a thriving mushroom growing business in the cellar! (phew that was a long sentence!)
Robert Mitchum is one of these camera toting tourist who "mistakenly" wanders into the private portion of the house, finding Lady Rile and the sparks fly!
It's a charming old-fashioned adult romantic farce, that's not too far fetched.

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