1944 · satire · small-town · farce
The Miracle of Morgan's Creek
Directed by Preston Sturges1h 38m1944
A small-town girl with a soft spot for American soldiers wakes up the morning after a wild farewell party for the troops to find that she married someone she can't remember.
Our read: The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (1944) reads as a cosy, breathless, grounded satire · small-town · farce entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Cosy, breathless, gentle satire / small-town, grounded in texture. Redemptive, intimate, measured.
- warm
- kinetic
- funny
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