What a Way to Go!

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  • Rated: Not Rated
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 51 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: January 11, 2005
  • Originally Released: 1964
  • Label: 20th Century Fox

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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 514
Rating: 2.5/4 -- The fact was that it simply wasn't very funny. Full Review
TV Guide
Jun 17, 2008
A big, gaudy, gimmicky comedy which continually promises more than it delivers by way of wit and/or bellylaffs. Full Review
Variety
Jun 17, 2008
[Spells] out each joke for the slow readers and then repeating it for those who can't read at all. Full Review
Esquire Magazine
Aug 13, 2019
Rating: C- -- A star vehicle for Shirley MacLaine, Thompson's film is a tediously episodic black comedy about a wealthy widow and her five husbands; Newman, Mitchum, and Martin are all wasted. Full Review
EmanuelLevy.Com
Jun 11, 2010
Rating: 2/5 -- J. Lee Thompson's direction has failed to coalesce a good, firm farce. It lets the whole thing flap wildly -- and that's no way to make a film. Full Review
New York Times
Jun 17, 2008
Hard to define but easy to recommend; the 20th-Fox presentation is a funny musical comedy, or comedy with music, with all the glamour that Hollywood can throw into one film, and a high-powered cast to light the marquee. Full Review
Hollywood Reporter
May 14, 2018
Rating: C -- An unappealing episodic black comedy that gets stuck in its own silliness. Full Review
Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Feb 9, 2005

Product Description:

A classic of 60's film decadence, WHAT A WAY TO GO stars Shirley MacLaine as Louisa, a widow four times over who is left with more money than she knows what to do with. When she signs an unsolicited, multimillion-dollar check over to the IRS, however, officials in high places begin to doubt her sanity, and send her to a psychiatrist. As her story unfolds in the doctor's office, her motivations become clear. A young Louisa, encouraged to marry for money, instead chose to marry for love. Sadly, after her new husband had a small taste of success, he pursued it endlessly, and ultimately greed lead him to an early demise. His three successors follow suit. In an attempt to avoid the same fate, Louisa now desires to rid herself of her wealth and return to her original simplicity. With an all-star cast including Paul Newman, Robert Mitchum, Dean Martin, Dick Van Dyke, Gene Kelly, Robert Cummings, and Margaret Dumont, this over-the-top comedy is a study in excessive mise en scene, and MacLaine is resplendent in Edith Head costumes and brilliant Technicolor.

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  • Sales Rank: 126,988
  • UPC: 024543130949
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