#16 The Miracle of Morgan's Creek

Published: April 2, 2018, 9:27 p.m.

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We begin round four of our go-rounds with a New to Two pick from Nicole, \\u201cThe Miracle of Morgan\\u2019s Creek.\\u201d This 1944 Preston Sturges classic was incredibly suggestive for its time, using a lot of coded language to refer to sex and pregnancy, both forbidden to speak of by the pre-MPAA Hays Code.

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Daffy but pleasant Trudy Kockenlocker goes to a farewell party for American servicemen, imbibes a lot of spiked \\u201clemonade,\\u201d and discovers the next morning that she is married; the biggest problem is that she can\\u2019t remember the groom\\u2019s name. The second-biggest problem is that it turns out she\\u2019s expecting. What did David and Brett think of our oldest (and possibly funniest) movie so far? How many euphemisms can be squeezed into one film? And how can Trudy find a way out of her situation without a lifelong scandal? It would take a miracle\\u2026

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