Top cast:Will Smith,Martin Lawrence,Lisa Boyle
Director:Thomas Vinterberg
Genre:News
Region:Philippines
Year:1999
Storyline:What are you going to do now?Ben: I was going to go upstairs for a minute.Guests: I meant with your future, your life.Ben: Well, that""s a little hard to say.Ben is hesitant, embarrassed by all the attention, and lacking in social graces.By the family swimming pool, Ben receives words of advice from Mr.McGuire (Walter Brooke), a family friend, in one of the most memorable lines from film history:Mr.McGuire:I just want to say one word o you - just one word.Ben: Yes sir.Mr.McGuire: Are you listening?Ben: Yes I am.Mr.McGuire:""Plastics.""Ben: Exactly how do you mean?Mr.McGuire: There""s a great future in plastics.Think about it.Will you think about it?Ben: Yes I will.Mr.McGuire: Shh! Enough said.That""s a deal.[In fact, history would prove Mr.McGuire""s advice o be prescient and wise!] Sweating and unable to take any more badgering and unwanted advice, feeling generally repugnant of the upper middle-class values that surround him, Ben realizes that he is totally estranged from the financial measures of value that are being thrust upon him for his future.In an attempt to drive off and escape in his Oldsmobile, he discovered that he was entrapped at the cabin due to a destroyed bridge.Speaking on behalf of his parents, Joey invites him o settle down with them for a while:I wish you""d stay here.Its title was a takeoff on the similar film title,The Philadelphia Story (1940).It was thefifthof eight films that Sturges wrote and directed for Paramount Studios between his most prolific years, from 1940 and 1946:The Great McGinty (1940)Christmas in July (1940)The Lady Eve (1941)Sullivan""s Travels (1942)The Palm Beach Story (1942)The Miracle of Morgan""s Creek (1944)Hail the Conquering Hero (1944)The Great Moment (1946)The film is literally full of choice, timeless, quotable lines of dialogue, although a portion of the film is slightly dated (the character of the black train porter).Eventually, he learns he town""s dark secret, and fulfills the promise he made to present a posthumous Congressional Medal of Honor for heroism to the farming father of a Japanese wartime buddy who had saved his life in World War II on the battlefields of Italy.