Christmas in July

If you can't sleep at night, it isn't the coffee - it's the bunk!
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  • Run Time: 1 hours, 8 minutes
  • Video: Black & White
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: May 10, 2011
  • Originally Released: 1940
  • Label: Universal Studios

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A mildly diverting programmer, Christmas in July lacks both the overall spontaneity and entertainment impress of Sturges' first picture. Full Review
Variety
Nov 13, 2007
Rating: 5/5 -- As a creator of rich and human comedy Mr. Sturges is closing fast on the heels of Frank Capra. Full Review
New York Times
Jan 28, 2006
Produced for a paltry $325,000, it once again gives the lie to the arbitrary Hollywood assumption that a film's quality is in direct proportion to its cost. Full Review
TIME Magazine
Dec 5, 2008
Rating: 4/4 -- It's a small gem, almost too short to mention (67 minutes), but glitteringly perfect nonetheless. Full Review
Combustible Celluloid
Jan 17, 2019
Rating: 3/4 -- A breeze to watch, and Sturges packs the brief running time with plenty of his trademark wit, skewering corporate vanity and overconfident male bluster in equal measure. Full Review
From the Front Row
Jan 4, 2020
Preston Sturges's second feature as writer-director (1940, 66 min.) is in many ways the most underrated of his movies -- a riotous comedy-satire about capitalism that bites so deep it hurts. Full Review
Chicago Reader
Jan 1, 2000
Rating: 3.5/4 -- A delightful effort worth watching on Christmas Day, Independence Day, and even Arbor Day. Full Review
Film Frenzy
Nov 30, 2019

Product Description:

In Preston Sturges' second film, CHRISTMAS IN JULY, a practical joke propels a hard-working New York couple into a financial and ideological fiasco that challenges the concepts of talent, destiny, and the value of validation. The simple yet soon-to-be-complicated plot sees two lovers sitting on the roof on a hot New York City night, arguing about money. The beautiful girl, Betty (Ellen Drew), attempts to sell her grumpy and hardscrabble fiancé Jimmy (Dick Powell) on the merits of a one-room apartment, when all the while he is desperately attempting to hear the radio, which promises to announce the $25,000 winner of a slogan contest for a local coffee company. The next day when a trio of prankster coworkers forge a telegraph telling him that he has won, Jimmy and Betty are swept into a changed world, one in which long-suffering struggles are validated and self-doubts are dispelled. Jimmy finds himself respected by his boss, placated by his peers, and the landscape of New York City is transformed from an obstacle course to a land of opportunity, only to be thrust back into bleak reality when the hoax is revealed.

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  • UPC: 025192100512
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