Oh, that one! Has had enough changes for it not to be recognisable. Kicks off very like an old romantic comedy, fuelled by old songs from Ray Charles performed by Durante, Martin, Holliday etc. Then visit to aunt Katharine Hepburn (still capable of giving a great performance) tuns mood more serious and Ennio Morricone takes over in the music department.
Conrad Hall makes it look peculiarly like a classic old movie, then catches you out with one of his painstakingly lit interiors (Conrad W. is the operator*). Annette Bening steals the honours from Warren Beatty.
Easily as good if not better than the Cary Grant version.
* Not much, is the answer. Olympus Has Fallen (2013) - White House under attack, Morgan Freeman. The Moon and the Sun (2016), Pierce Brosnan, Louis XIV and a mermaid? Oka! (2011), musician amongst pygmies. The Longshots (2008) female football player.... etc.
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