You Can’t Take it with You
1938 Best Picture

100 Words
Tony the banker’s son is not riveted by the family business, though his secretary is a thrill and a half. Her home is filled with happy, strange characters making fireworks and love dreams and Readers, did you know that I was in this play in high school? Anyway, Alice and Tony lern The Big Apple and have a grand time, but grandpa and Tony’s parents wind up in the clink and Alice finds her backbone along with the family’s bail money. The film’s message carries through the ages that love, always, is a more worthwhile pursuit (purse suit?) than money.