Screwball Summer: The Awful Truth

In this Oscar-winning farce, Cary Grant (in the role that first defined the Cary Grant persona) and Irene Dunne exude charm, cunning, and artless affection as an urbane couple who, fed up with each other’s infidelities, resolve to file for divorce.

But try as they might to move on, the mischievous Jerry can’t help meddling in Lucy’s ill-matched engagement to a corn-fed Oklahoma businessman (Ralph Bellamy), and a mortified Lucy begins to realise that she may be saying goodbye to the only dance partner capable of following her lead.

Directed by the versatile Leo McCarey (An Affair to Remember), a master of improvisation and slapstick as well as a keen and sympathetic observer of human folly, The Awful Truth is a warm but unsparing screwball comedy about two people whose flaws only make them more irresistible.

From the gumball bottom to the cherry on top, QFT is having a Screwball Summer. We are celebrating the fast-talking farce of the screwball comedy with a season guaranteed to tickle your funny bone.

You may also like the following events from Queen's Film Theatre, Belfast:

• This Wednesday, 30th July, 06:00 pm, David Lynch: Wild at Heart in Belfast
• This Wednesday, 30th July, 08:30 pm, The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire in Belfast
• This Wednesday, 30th July, 08:50 pm, Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse in Belfast

Also check out other Comedy events in Belfast.