Comedy, Romance
An office clerk loves entering contests in the hopes of someday winning a fortune and marrying the girl he loves. His latest attempt is the Maxford House Coffee Slogan Contest. As a joke, some of his co-workers put together a fake telegram which says that he won the $25,000 grand prize.
MOVIE COMMENTS
SIMILAR MOVIES
Sissi
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
School of Rock
Hook, Line and Sinker
Max Headroom: 20 Minutes into the Future
Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?
Bluebeard's Eighth Wife
Mannequin Two: On the Move
Marjorie Morningstar
Tardes de Café
Putney Swope
The Affairs of Jimmy Valentine
Bachelor Mother
The Great Madcap
Mannequin
Serendipity
Carol
The Ferpect Crime
Airplane II: The Sequel
Odette Toulemonde
SIMILAR MOVIES
Sissi
IMDB 7.3 | Dec , 1955
The young Bavarian princess Elisabeth, who all call Sissi, goes with her mother and older sister Néné to Austria where Néné will be wed to an emperor named Franz Joseph, Yet unexpectedly Franz runs into Sissi while out fishing and they fall in love.Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
IMDB 7.1 | Sep , 2005
Cheese-loving eccentric Wallace and his cunning canine pal, Gromit, investigate a mystery in Nick Park's animated adventure, in which the lovable inventor and his intrepid pup run a business ridding the town of garden pests. Using only humane methods that turn their home into a halfway house for evicted vermin, the pair stumble upon a mystery involving a voracious vegetarian monster that threatens to ruin the annual veggie-growing contest.School of Rock
IMDB 7.1 | Oct , 2003
Fired from his band and hard up for cash, guitarist and vocalist Dewey Finn finagles his way into a job as a fifth-grade substitute teacher at a private school, where he secretly begins teaching his students the finer points of rock 'n' roll. The school's hard-nosed principal is rightly suspicious of Finn's activities. But Finn's roommate remains in the dark about what he's doing.Hook, Line and Sinker
IMDB 5.5 | Dec , 1930
Two fast-talking insurance salesmen meet Mary, who is running away from her wealthy mother, and they agree to help her run a hotel that she owns. When they find out that the hotel is run down and nearly abandoned, they launch a phony PR campaign that presents the hotel as a resort favored by the rich. Their advertising succeeds too well, and many complications soon arise.Max Headroom: 20 Minutes into the Future
IMDB 6.4 | Apr , 1985
While trying to expose corruption and greed, television reporter Edison Carter discovers that his employer, Network 23, has created a new form of subliminal advertising (termed "blip-verts") that can be fatal to certain viewers.Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?
IMDB 6.7 | Jul , 1957
To save his career, an ad man wants a sex symbol to endorse a lipstick but in exchange, she wants him to pretend to be her lover.Bluebeard's Eighth Wife
IMDB 7 | Mar , 1938
American multi-millionaire Michael Brandon marries his eighth wife, Nicole, the daughter of a broke French Marquis. But she doesn't want to be only a number in the line of his ex-wives and undertakes her own strategy to tame him.Mannequin Two: On the Move
IMDB 5.7 | May , 1991
Although Jason works as a department store clerk, he is also a reincarnated prince. Long ago, his beloved Jessie was snatched away from him by an evil wizard who used his powers to transform her into wooden statue. Now Jessie is in Jason's department store as a mannequin. When he encounters her, she awakens from her thousand-year sleep. They quickly revive their romance, but the evil wizard has been reincarnated as well, and he's up to no good.Marjorie Morningstar
IMDB 6.2 | Apr , 1958
While working as a counselor at a summer camp, college-student Marjorie Morgenstern falls for 32-year-old Noel Airman, a would-be dramatist working at a nearby summer theater. Like Marjorie, he is an upper-middle-class New York Jew, but has fallen away from his roots, and Marjorie's parents object among other things to his lack of a suitable profession. Noel himself warns Marjorie repeatedly that she's much too naive and conventional for him, but they nonetheless fall in love.Tardes de Café
IMDB 9 | Jul , 2024
Amidst the tranquil afternoon ambiance, two strangers find solace in the intimate setting of a neighborhood café, dwelling into introspective conversations about uncertain circumstances that will profoundly redefine their outlook on life.Putney Swope
IMDB 6.5 | Jul , 1969
Swope—the only black man on the executive board of an advertising firm—is accidentally put in charge after the death of the chairman.The Affairs of Jimmy Valentine
IMDB 6 | Mar , 1942
A New York radio personality travels to the small town of Fernville to oversee a contest to identify retired safecracker Jimmy Valentine, believed to be living there under an assumed name. The close-knit town of upstanding citizens is understandably upset by this venture, all the moreso when some of its citizens begin to be murdered. The radio personality and the local newspaper's young daughter collaborate on solving the murders while revealing Valentine, who has become one of the suspects.Bachelor Mother
IMDB 7.1 | Jun , 1939
Polly Parrish, a clerk at Merlin's Department Store, is mistakenly presumed to be the mother of a foundling. Outraged at Polly's unmotherly conduct, David Merlin becomes determined to keep the single woman and "her" baby together.The Great Madcap
IMDB 7.1 | Nov , 1949
Portrayal of a family’s attempt to change the spending habit of the indulgent and hedonistic patriarch, Alfredo. The family decides to try to fool him into spending less by telling him that his large fortune is gone.Mannequin
IMDB 6.9 | Feb , 1987
Jonathan Switcher, an unemployed artist, finds a job as an assistant window dresser for a department store. When Jonathan happens upon a beautiful mannequin he previously designed, she springs to life and introduces herself as Emmy, an Egyptian under an ancient spell. Despite interference from the store's devious manager, Jonathan and his mannequin fall in love while creating eye-catching window displays to keep the struggling store in business.Serendipity
IMDB 6.9 | Oct , 2001
Although strangers Sara and Jonathan are both already in relationships, they realize they have genuine chemistry after a chance encounter – but part company soon after. Years later, they each yearn to reunite, despite being destined for the altar. But to give true love a chance, they have to find one another again.Carol
IMDB 7.5 | Nov , 2015
In 1950s New York, a department-store clerk who dreams of a better life falls for an older, married woman.The Ferpect Crime
IMDB 6.7 | Sep , 2004
A playboy has the tables turned on him when he finds himself being used as a plaything by an undesirable woman.Airplane II: The Sequel
IMDB 6.1 | Dec , 1982
A faulty computer causes a passenger space shuttle to head straight for the sun, and man-with-a-past Ted Striker must save the day and get the shuttle back on track – again – all the while trying to patch up his relationship with Elaine.Odette Toulemonde
IMDB 5.7 | Feb , 2007
Objectively, Odette Toulemonde has nothing to be happy about, but is. Balthazar Balsan has everything to be happy about, but isn’t. Odette, awkwardly forty, with a delightful hairdresser son and a daughter bogged down in adolescence, spends her days behind the cosmetic’s counter in a department store and her nights sewing feathers on costumes for Parisian variety shows. She dreams of thanking Balthazar Balsan, her favorite author, to whom – she believes – she owes her optimism. The rich and charming Parisian writer then turns up in her life in an unexpected way.