
Movies that feel like The Awful Truth (1937)
If you loved The Awful Truth, the closest films we have are The Palm Beach Story (1942), Bringing Up Baby (1938) and The Philadelphia Story (1940). All three share The Awful Truth's witty and playful feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 8 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on YouTube TV, TCM and Philo and others, checked against today's data.
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If The Awful Truth hit the spot, these will too

Both circle divorce and screwball comedy

Both keep circling back to screwball comedy

Witty and playful in the same breath

Both land romance and tenderness at once

Witty comedy in both cases

The same preoccupation in both: romcom
The difference: Reviewed a good deal more coolly

Romcom is the engine of both
The difference: 64 years apart, and the 2000s show

Romance built on play, twice over

Romantic comedy, and it commits to that

Romance with a pulse of tenderness, in both cases

Both trade on wit more than on being comedy

Romance built on play, twice over
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