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67% Critic Match
Move Over, Darling
“She's Married to Him... He's Married to Her... and It's Sheer Bedlam from Morning 'till Night!”
6.7 / 10• 1963• 1h 43m•NR• English
ComedyRomance
Storyline
Three years into their loving marriage, with two infant daughters at home in Los Angeles, Nicholas Arden and Ellen Wagstaff Arden are on a plane that goes down in the South Pacific. Although most passengers manage to survive the incident, Ellen presumably perishes when swept off her lifeboat, her body never recovered. Fast forward five years. Nicholas, wanting to move on with his life, has Ellen declared legally dead. Part of that moving on includes getting remarried, this time to a young woman named Bianca Steele, who, for their honeymoon, he plans to take to the same Monterrey resort where he and Ellen spent their honeymoon. On that very same day, Ellen is dropped off in Los Angeles by the Navy, who rescued her from the South Pacific island where she was stranded for the past five years. She asks the Navy not to publicize her rescue nor notify Nicholas as she wants to do so herself.
Cast & Crew
Doris Day
Ellen Wagstaff Arden
Lead
James Garner
Nicholas Arden
Polly Bergen
Bianca Steele
Thelma Ritter
Grace Arden
Fred Clark
Mr. Codd
Don Knotts
Shoe Clerk
Elliott Reid
Dr. Herman Schlick
Edgar Buchanan
Judge Bryson
What People Are Saying
4.0
“A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. Michael Gordon's vision lands with breathtaking precision.”
3.0
“Every frame feels alive. Move Over, Darling is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.”
