Movie Movie is a 1978 American double bill directed by Stanley Donen. It consists of two short films, Dynamite Hands, a boxing ring morality play, and Baxter's Beauties of 1933, a musical comedy, both starring the husband-and-wife team of George C. Scott and Trish Van Devere. A fake trailer for a flying-ace movie set in World War I is also shown. At the start of the film, George Burns tells us that we are about to see an old-style double feature. In the old days, he explains, movies were in black-and-white, except sometimes "when they sang it came out in color." Joey Popchik, a young man from... a poor family, dreams of one day becoming a lawyer. His sister is losing her eyesight, so he becomes a boxer to raise the money to have her cured. Along the way, he gets seduced by fame and fortune, and runs afoul of a crooked boxing manager. In the end, his sister is cured and Joey, so that "poetic justice could be served," races through law school to become the prosecutor who puts the villain behind bars, spouting corny courtroom aphorisms such as "a man can move mountains with his bare heart." Legendary theatrical producer Spats Baxter learns he's dying.
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| Release date: | November 1978 |
| Directed by: | Stanley Donen |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 105 Minutes |
| Music by: | Ralph Burns |
| Screenplay by: | Larry Gelbart, Sheldon Keller |
| Genre: | Musical, Comedy |