Top cast:George Nichols,Kate Bruce,Linda Arvidson
Director:Jennifer Phang
Genre:Drama
Region:Algeria
Year:2000
Storyline:A woman does the same thing - the same, mind you, and she's an outcast.Adam: Finished?Amanda: No.Now I'm not blaming you personally, Adam, because this is so.Adam: Well, that's awfully large of you.Amanda: No, no, it's not your fault.All I'm saying is, why let this deplorable system seep into our courts of law, where women are supposed o be equal?Adam: Mostly, I think, females get advantages!Amanda: We don't want advantages! And we don't want prejudices!Adam: Oh, don't get excited, honey, and don't -Amanda: I'm not excited -Adam: Oh, you're giving me the Bryn Mawr right too.She administered CPR to Ethan and resuscitated him (partially in slow-motion).As they walked arm in arm down the waterway, with Ethan carrying the Rabbit's Foot in the small case, she asked for him to explain why they were in China.Not a darn thing.Not where he comes from, what he makes, or what he makes making it.Only thing we know about him is his name, and you weren't too sure about that.Yet he walks in, and we hand him Kay....I want o know whether he's going to make her happy.Whether he's going o make a home for her, can he support her?"- Stanley's desire is to follow through on all that "old-fashioned rigmarole" including the lengthy "man-to-man" talk (a fireside "little chat") he has with Buckley about his financial prospects (three months before the nuptials), to determine if he can suitably support Kay; the interview is interminably long and boring- during the required meeting of the Banks to get o know the wealthy in-laws the Dunstans, Stanley and Ellie meet with Herbert or "Herbie" (Moroni Olsen) and Doris Dunstan (Billie Burke), who live in much more than a "shack"; Stanley admits (in voice-over) about the meeting: "We did more bare-faced lying in those few minutes than we had done in our entire lives"; he get-together in the Dunstan's living room ends when Stanley drinks too much Madeira (fortified wine from Portugal) and falls asleep upright on the couch in the midst of the discussion- in the scene of the Banks' party to announce the engagement (the guests routinely decline Stanley's pre-prepared martinis and order many other varieties of drinks), Stanley finds himself confined to the kitchen and is unable to deliver his prepared speech; he is advised about finances and his place in the proceedings: "Enjoy your minute in the limelight.A lotta heels!They begin creepin' up on ya, tryin' to sell ya something.They get long claws and hey get a stranglehold on ya and ya squirm and ya duck and ya holler and ya try to push 'em away, but you haven't got a chance.[The "MAN WANTED" sign suddenly becomes a double-entendre, as if Cora had been advertising her desires for a new man -- and to do a "job" for her --- murdering her husband.