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The Grass Is Greener

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An English earl (Cary Grant) and his wife (Deborah Kerr) open their stately home to the public, including a Texas oilman (Robert Mitchum).
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Kat Halstead Common Sense Media Nov 11
4/5
At its core, The Grass Is Greener may be a fairly slight film about a wife whose head is easily turned by a rich suitor, but the flighty, devil-may-care approach to the material very much works in its favor here. Go to Full Review
Penelope Gilliatt Observer (UK) 03/06/2024
This blow for England and monogamy, struck by an English husband-and-wife playwriting duo, Hugh and Margaret Williams, did very well... as a stage comedy. In transferring it to the screen the writers have sacrificed nothing of the quality of the original. Go to Full Review
Dwight MacDonald Esquire Magazine 07/22/2019
The lines and situations are of such majestic ineptitude as to reduce even Cary Grant to mediocrity. Go to Full Review
Steve Crum Video-Reviewmaster.com 03/14/2009
4/5
Fun Cary Grant, Deborah Kerr comedy romp with Stanley Donen touch. Go to Full Review
Lori Hoffman Atlantic City Weekly 04/20/2007
4/5
Robert Mitchum will surprise you Go to Full Review
Frank Swietek One Guy's Opinion 03/30/2007
3/5
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Jack S 10/15/2024 This bright and stylishly made romantic comedy is diverting but also a bit stagy. But ultimately, the story is simply not really plausible for the viewing audience to accept: that a woman (Kerr) living in a majestic English country home and who’s married to the charming Cary Grant, would suddenly run off with some abrupt and presumptuous American visitor (a miscast Mitchum)! See more 11/25/2021 I loved the movie! Robert Mitchum & Cary Grant both act with such natural grace & ease. It was a funny movie. I watch it about once a year. Mitchum is one of my all time favorites. Love his bedroom eyes & deep sexy voice. See more steve d 07/20/2020 Not Grant's best but it is still a blast. See more 02/16/2017 This film has a solid cast and exceptional script. Its blasé approach to adultery with four unsympathetic characters didn't appeal. The film's tone didn't help in its inconsistency, varying between drama and screwball comedy. See more 01/17/2015 This is the most interesting movie I have ever seen when it came down to marital issues and affairs. The way the husband handles his wife falling for another manis truly remarkable! Never seen anything like it! See more 01/13/2015 The four stars shine in this cute comedy about Grant and Kerr, financially downtrodden proprietors of a manor house in the Downton Abbey vein. They open the doors to tourists, and each becomes involved romantically (she with Mitchum, he with Simmons). If you can believe that any woman would leave Cary Grant, you'll enjoy this. Only the stagey atmosphere works against it. See more Read all reviews
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Movie Info

Synopsis An English earl (Cary Grant) and his wife (Deborah Kerr) open their stately home to the public, including a Texas oilman (Robert Mitchum).
Director
Stanley Donen
Producer
Stanley Donen
Screenwriter
Hugh Williams, Margaret Vyner
Distributor
Universal Pictures, Republic Pictures
Production Co
Grandon Productions Ltd.
Genre
Comedy
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Dec 23, 1960, Original
Release Date (Streaming)
May 1, 2012
Runtime
1h 45m
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