Essential Cinema: Four by Preston Sturges
THE PALM BEACH STORY
Directed by Preston Sturges
USA, 1942, 1h 28min, 35mm
AFS Cinema
6406 N I-35 Suite 3100 Austin, TX 78752
Pricing
$14 evening / $11.50 matinee (available M-F for shows before 5 PM)
$4 discounts for AFS MAKE & WATCH members. Free for LOVE & Impact Circle members.
Discounts for AISD educators and local high school & college students are available at the box office with a valid school ID.
Accessibility
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“THE PALM BEACH STORY is the diamond bracelet of romantic comedies: glittering, extravagant in feeling and in laughs, representative of all the things you might buy in the moonlight and come to regret the next day — but just look at the thing!”
—The Criterion Collection
“Sturges on the importance of money, sex, and guns — not necessarily in that order.”
—Austin Chronicle
Comedy of remarriage, Preston Sturges style. Claudette Colbert and Joel McCrea play a couple who are unhappy with their lot in life. As they tentatively venture into other romantic situations, they each contrive to make the other partner jealous. It’s very funny, and romantic in a hard-bitten sort of way. In 35mm.
