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      One Week

      1920 25m Comedy List
      100% 5 Reviews Tomatometer 92% 500+ Ratings Audience Score Newlyweds are unaware that their prefab house kit is misnumbered. Read More Read Less

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      Isabel T To be honest i was not expecting much from this movie, Mostly cause its from the early 19th century and well not all the films were the best back then. They didn't start getting good until the fifties. But this movie exceeded my expectations, it was hilarious and the stunts were so absolutely fantastic and unexpected. I really enjoyed watching this film. I totally recommend this if you haven't already seen. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 12/15/22 Full Review Audience Member Another engaging picture from Keaton. Not one of his best, but still a fun watch. One Week, delves deep into Keatons wit and brings only a charm he can in this tale. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/06/23 Full Review sean l Evidently a direct satire of a then well-known Ford Motor Company advertisement (build your own prefab house in just seven days), Buster Keaton's One Week works just as well with no prior knowledge of the source. It follows a hapless bride and groom, newlyweds fresh from the chapel, who are gifted just such a boxed home and proceed to naïvely plow into every roadblock and pitfall imaginable. Not that the couple is free of blame - their approach to every problem is fundamentally backwards - but a few mean-spirited bits of sabotage from a jilted suitor certainly do them no favors. It's a natural playground for Keaton, who creatively misuses every step of the construction process: failing to secure load-bearing walls, blindly feeling his way up a ladder with a brick chimney over his head, sprinting through a second-story doorway into thin air, lazily failing to properly install carpeting over the floorboards. The problems persist even after the dwelling is complete, with a harsh windstorm revealing every shortcut to unsuspecting housewarming guests, and yet the stakes rise still higher from there. The climax, a literal runaway house rumbling towards a busy set of train tracks, serves as a prime example of Keaton's gigantic, ludicrously ambitious sense of scale. Go big or go home, the saying says, and Buster really went for it this time, stretching his luck so thin he was laid up in a doctor's office before the end of production. This wouldn't be the last time. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 03/30/23 Full Review Audience Member Perfectly demonstrates the genius of this comedy star of the silent era. One Week is a short "2 Reeler" where a pair of newly weds build a home from a flatpack kit with disastrous results. It is non-stop physical humour and madcap antics from the opening scene and the stunts, all performed for real by Keaton and other members of the cast are amazing. Definitely a good place to start if you are unsure about the comedy classics of this era and a hell of a lot funnier than many modern counterparts. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/13/23 Full Review Audience Member Superb! Such great gags! Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/03/23 Full Review Audience Member The brilliance of Buster Keaton is embodied in this film. The plot, timing, gags, delivery and production are near perfect. I cannot think of any improvements. It is mind-boggling how many of the stunts were performed. Little things, such as Buster balancing on a ladder, are so subtle, but so brilliant physically and in comedic design. Buster was truly a genius of physical comedy on par with Chaplin, Lloyd and other greats of the silent age. The plot moves quickly and is full of intensity. There is not one break in action on this roller coaster ride of comedy. I would recommend this to Keaton newbies, rather than The General, which most start with. Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 02/15/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      John Monaghan Detroit Free Press In 1920's One Week, the silent comedian known as the Great Stone Face attempts to assemble the build-it-yourself home he received as a wedding present. Rated: 4/4 Mar 7, 2008 Full Review Dennis Harvey 48 Hills An equally flabbergasting—not to mention hilarious—assembly of intricate, seemingly impossible gags... Apr 17, 2024 Full Review Josh Larsen LarsenOnFilm ...an incisive satire about the way American society presents marriage as a pre-packaged commodity. Rated: 3.5/4 Feb 22, 2022 Full Review Dennis Schwartz Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews Very funny slapstick two-reeler. Rated: B+ Oct 18, 2011 Full Review Gabe Leibowitz Film and Felt Physical humor and tomfoolery abound in this romp through the first week of married bliss and pitfalls, but there's also something really sweet about the love between Keaton and his new bride. Rated: 74/100 Jun 26, 2010 Full Review Read all reviews

      Movie Info

      Synopsis Newlyweds are unaware that their prefab house kit is misnumbered.
      Director
      Edward F. Cline
      Screenwriter
      Edward F. Cline
      Production Co
      Metro Pictures Corporation
      Genre
      Comedy
      Release Date (Streaming)
      Dec 1, 2020
      Runtime
      25m