Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948)

Directed by

H. C. Potter

Genre

comedy film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 33m

Rated

NR

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 199 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A married couple buys a run-down country house and tries to fix it up. They run into one problem after another with contractors and costs.

lightheartedwhimsicalfrustratingcomiccharmingdatedeasygoingbrisk

What happens

Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House is a 1948 American comedy film directed by H. C. Potter, and starring Cary Grant, Myrna Loy and Melvyn Douglas. Written and produced by the team of Melvin Frank and Norman Panama, it was an adaptation of the 1946 novel of the same name written by Eric Hodgins and illustrated by William Steig. The story follows a married couple who encounter constant problems after their purchase and remodel of a home in the country. The movie was the third and last pairing of Grant and Loy, who had shared good chemistry in The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947) and Wings in the Dark (1935). It was a box office hit upon its release. Warner Home Video released it to DVD with restored and remastered audio and video in 2004. It was loosely remade in 1986 as The Money Pit, starring Tom Hanks and Shelley Long, and in 2007 as Are We Done Yet?, starring Ice Cube. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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