Monte Brewster learns that he has inherited $10 million from his late grandfather, but then learns that he must spend $2 million in less than a year and remain unmarried to inherit the rest of the money..
Imagine Charlie Chaplin’s wallet on a bender, Buster Keaton’s poker-face hurled into a confetti hurricane, and you’ll approximate the manic grandeur of Brewster’s Millions—the 1921 proto-screwball that dared to ask: what if the road to happiness were paved with deliberate destitution? The premise, famously plucked f...
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" Imagine Charlie Chaplin’s wallet on a bender, Buster Keaton’s poker-face hurled into a confetti hurricane, and you’ll approximate the manic grandeur of Brewster’s Millions—the 1921 proto-screwball that dared to ask: what if the road to happiness were paved with deliberate destitution? The premise, famously plucked from George Barr McCutcheon’s 1902 novel and distilled through three playwrights and one nimble scenarist, is deceptively simple: spend two million smackers before the year’s final ..."
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