I Do and I Don't

Here is happily ever afterexcept when things arent happy and when ever after is abruptly terminated by divorce tragedy . . . or even murder. With her large-hearted understanding of how moviesand audienceswork leading film historian Jeanine Basinger traces the many ways Hollywood has tussled with the tricky subject of marriage explicating the relationships of countless marriages from Blondie and Dagwood to the heartrending couple in the Iranian A Separation from Coach and his wife in Friday Night Lights to Tracy and Hepburn and even to Laurel and Hardy (a marriage if ever there was one). A treasure trove of insight and sympathy illustrated with scores of wonderfully telling movie stills posters and ads.