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Hitchcock made a straight screwball romcom?! That would be 1941's Mr. & Mrs. Smith, which everybody insists on comparing to his suspense thrillers, even the remake which decides to properly "Hitchcock" it up by making the characters spies (and little else the same but the name). The original is the story of a quirky married couple who discover their marriage was not legal on a technicality. It's just a matter of doing it again, but the volatile Mrs. Smith decides Mr. Smith isn't enthusiastic about it enough and decides to perhaps marry his best friend, much to his consternation. It's an amusing film, with the right chemistry between Carole Lombard and Robert Montgomery that, at the end of the day, is about finding your perfect match, not just warts and all, but because the warts match the other's capacity for forgiveness too.

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