Easy Living

Easy Living

It's dizzy - it's daffy, It's cockeyed - it's laughy!

Directed by Mitchell Leisen

Produced by Paramount Pictures

193788 min7.2 / 10

A buoyant screwball comedy about mistaken identity and class collision, where a sable coat becomes the catalyst for romance and chaos among New York's wealthy and working poor.

J.B. Ball, a rich financier, gets fed up with his free-spending family. He takes his wife's just-bought (very expensive) sable coat and throws it out the window, it lands on poor hard-working girl Mary Smith. But it isn't so easy to just give away something so valuable, as he soon learns.

Questions people ask

  • Is Easy Living scary? No. Less frightening than 98% of films.

  • Is Easy Living easy watching? Yes, very. More comforting than 98% of films.

  • Is Easy Living sad? No. Less sad than 97% of films.

  • Does Easy Living end with hope? Yes, very. More hopeful than 97% of films.

  • Is Easy Living violent? No. Less violent than 92% of films.

These describe how the film comes across, measured across the whole film and compared with other well-known films. They are not a content list — nothing here was counted or checked scene by scene, so for age-suitability or specific content use a classification board or a dedicated content-warning service.

52/ 100

Cinnamon Score

How much this film gives you that nothing else will, and whether it delivers.

Familiar shape, done well.

Rarity12

How unlike any other film this one feels

Surprise92

How much more it delivers than it promises

Love75

How much audiences actually like it

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Ensemble

Like Easy Living

Nearest across the full emotional profile.

Same Mood as Easy Living

Nearest on what's most distinctive about this one.

Like Easy Living, But Darker

Similar, pushed toward heavier and more intense.

Like Easy Living, But Lighter

Similar, pushed toward warmer and easier.

Like Easy Living, But Less Popular

Same territory, far fewer people have seen it.

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