A New Leaf

Name: A New Leaf
Duration: 1 h 42 min

1hr 42m

1hr 42m
4.0/5 (14.5K)
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Henry Graham lives the life of a playboy. When his lawyer tells him one day that his lifestyle has consumed all his funds, he needs an idea to avoid climbing… More Details »

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Director:

Elaine May

Producer:

Hillard Elkins, Howard W. Koch, Joseph Manduke

Writer:

Jack Ritchie

Runtime:

1hr 42m

Synopsis

Henry Graham lives the life of a playboy. When his lawyer tells him one day that his lifestyle has consumed all his funds, he needs an idea to avoid climbing down the social ladder. So he intends to marry a rich woman and - murder her.

Cast

Walter Matthau
Elaine May
Jack Weston
George Rose
James Coco
Doris Roberts
Renée Taylor
William Redfield
Graham Jarvis
Jess Osuna

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RATINGS 574 FANS

4.0

Feb 5, 2016

if i ever read a bad review of this i'll probably set myself on fire

1.4K Likes

sydney

Jul 10, 2016

The punchline is that in order for a man to see a woman as a human being deserving of life, she has to grant him immortality. That's a pretty funny understatement. 52 project: 42/52

1.2K Likes

Sally Jane Black

Mar 25, 2017

An absolutely toxic screwball that doesn't so much update the genre for a nihilistic and self-absorbed era as demonstrate that the genre had beaten society to that punch by a good 40 years. Matthau is a collection of faces housed in a shambling figure, a trickster god…

1.0K Likes

Jake Cole
Oct 14, 2013

"Excuse me, you're not by any chance related to the Boston Hitlers?"

909 Likes

laird

Jun 17, 2023

He was a broke asexual sociopath, she was an immensely wealthy autistic bimbo, could I make it anymore obvious?

862 Likes

Nea Ching(y)

So funny. While this may be her directorial debut it feels like such a perfect bundle of everything I love about Elaine May. Hilarious, clever, a little sad, and different. So different. I'm not alone when I say for the hundredth time that May was way ahead of her time, but…

699 Likes

Karsten
Mar 1, 2016

"You have preserved in your own lifetime sir, a way of life that was dead before you were born.". The perfect 70s counterpoint to 30's class screwball comedy.

670 Likes

Filipe Furtado

Apr 22, 2020

Feel like I’ve seen a million imitations of this movie but none that feel so chaotic and “unfinished” in it’s plotting. But I think I mean that in a good way? Matthau’s character is a sociopath, he has no comeuppance, Henrietta never learns of his scheme, and he makes a…

654 Likes

demi adejuyigbe

Apr 21, 2020

Absolutely brilliant farce. How did I go this long before seeing it? Horrible rich guy goes bankrupt throwing his money around too frivolously, so he marries a rich social misfit to support his lifestyle, with plans to murder her for money down the line. And yet... this is…

487 Likes

Scott Tobias