November 13 movies: It Happened to Jane. Doris Day plays a widowed lobster fisherwoman living in a small Maine town, who sues a huge railroad company owned by Ernie Kovacs, doing his best Charles Foster Kane impersonation to play the "meanest man in the world." Jack Lemmon plays Day's love interest, a lawyer in the small town who's passionate about bettering his world through politics.
The movie was funny, very funny at times, but it just didn't work for me. Lemmon is badly miscast, Day is so squeaky clean you could scrub a floor with her, and by the end of the movie I was so sick of salt-of-the-earth New Englanders and their homespun wisdom I wanted to scream. What I wouldn't give for urbane sophisticates trading quips over champagne cocktails!
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