Upper Class (2002)
Beware of the High Price Spread
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Runtime : 1H 24M
Director : Paul Thomas
Sinopse
Kari is about to marry Robert just for the money. But before she does, she's going to do the bad boy and the mystery man. After all, before you sell out, you might as well whore it out...wouldn't you say?
Inglaterra, século XIX. Uma misteriosa praga espalha zumbis por todos lados, mas Elizabeth Bennet (Lily James), especialista em artes marciais e no manuseio de armas, está preparada para enfrentar os piores mortos-vivos. O que a incomoda de verdade é ter que conviver e lutar ao lado do arrogante Sr. Darcy (Sam Riley).
O instrutor de tênis Chris Wilton se casa com a jovem Chloé para conseguir um cargo na empresa do sogro milionário, mas começa a traí-la com Nola Rice, a sensual noiva americana do cunhado, que ameaça expor o romance.
Johnny is a successful banker with great respect for and dedication to the people in his life, especially his future wife Lisa. The happy-go-lucky guy sees his world being torn apart when his friends begin to betray him one-by-one.
Esta adaptação para a tela, roteirizada por Anita Loos e Jane Murfin e dirigida por George Cukor, foi um tremendo sucesso no seu lançamento. Estrelada por Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford e Rosalind Russell. O filme deu continuidade à tradição das peças só com personagens de mulheres tagarelas. Dos glamorosos apartamentos da alta sociedade de Manhattan, até Reno onde todos se divorciam, o filme mostra um enfoque ácido de suas vidas e dos esforços dos maridos para fazerem suas esposas ricas e poderosas. Durante toda o filme não aparece um único homem se quer, embora sejam muito citados, e o tema central seja os relacionamentos das mulheres com eles.
Na esperança de frustrar o plano de sua própria esposa, que caça ouro, um homem de negócios asqueroso organiza seu próprio sequestro, apenas para perceber que há muitas outras pessoas interessadas em sua riqueza também.
The three Craig sisters Penny, Kay, and Joan, go to New York to stop their divorced father from marrying gold digger Donna Lyons and re-unite him with their mother.
Two sailors get caught in a mountain of mix-ups when they meet their long-lost twins. Laurel and Hardy play themselves and their twins.
A business woman who creates the perfect marriage proposals for wealthy men, becomes the target of a crazy client's obsession when she shows him compassion after his girlfriend publicly rejects him.
Amoral alpinista social utiliza o sexo como arma, usando seu charme para chegar, de cama em cama, a uma posição social que ela considera à sua altura.
Calvin and Leonard, two broke losers, are arrested for trying to rob rich old sisters Doris and Betty. The women have a change of heart, drop the charges and invite the the boys over to their mansion. Calvin decides he and Leonard should marry the women, and, when they soon die, live off the inheritance. The ladies, however, have run into their own financial troubles and wed the boys with plans of murdering them for insurance money.
Lil trabalha para a Legendre Company e faz com que Bill, seu chefe, divorcie-se de sua mulher Irene e case-se com ela, forçando a sociedade a prestar atenção nela.
Romance strikes when a vacationing millionairess and her daughter and son spend their vacation at a posh New England resort.
A society man's loving, devoted wife, upon learning that he has been unfaithful and is planning to leave her for the other woman, strategically pretends to be having an affair of her own. The woman's friends gladly assist in the deception.
Enquanto Jon, o vagabundo, faz uma corrida para isso, ele se encontra em uma expedição no deserto, onde personagens selvagens e pontos fracos se cruzam. Enquanto sua desventura o ensina sobre amizade e lealdade, o agente funerário de Wiseau expõe uma surpresa ou duas.
Leaving Missouri to find a wealthy husband in New York City, Eadie Chapman becomes a chorus girl and soon entertains at the lavish home of millionaire Frank Cousins. Cousins proposes to Eadie, only to then commit suicide due to bankruptcy. Fellow millionaire T. R. Paige defends Eadie when the police question her for having Cousins' jewelry -- but when she becomes enamored with his son, Tom, Paige declares Eadie a gold digger.
Psychiatric patient Elmeri knows about the existence of a gold treasure in Finnish Lapland, hidden there by his late father who somehow managed to capture it from withdrawing German troops on the last days of WW2. His openly gay nurse helps him escape from the mental institution, and the two men slowly find their way up north to reach the gold. On their way, the odd couple meets a cavalcade of even odder characters.
A millionaire joins the Navy hoping to find a girl who'll marry him for himself, not for his money. A beautiful gold-digger who works at a resort hotel sets out to get him.
Dick Wallace wants to marry a minister's grand-daughter but his father, who wants him to get work on his company's business, is opposed. She takes a job with the company to prove she's okay.
After losing nearly all of an inheritance to taxes, sisters Kay (Betty Grable) and Barbara Latimer (Carole Landis), waitresses at a drive-in restaurant in Texas, scheme to find rich husbands. With the aid of their aunt Susan (Charlotte Greenwood), the sisters take the last of their money and head to a well-known Miami resort where they soon meet two wealthy young men, Phil (Don Ameche) and Jeff (Robert Cummings), who begin a fierce rivalry for Kay, not realizing that Barbara has fallen in love with one of them.
After a tumultuous first marriage, Millie Blake learns to love her newfound independence and drags her feet on the possibility of remarriage. The years pass, and now Millie's daughter garners the attentions of men-- Men who once devoted their time to her mother.