Movie guide: 'Straight Up' and our critics' 15 best choices to watch at home
by Los Angeles Times
Apr 15, 2020
3 minutes
"Straight Up" - In the classic "His Girl Friday," Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell sling verbal jabs at the virtually unheard-of rate of 240 words per minute. I didn't keep a running count of the dialogue in the breathlessly hyper-articulate "Straight Up," mainly because I was too busy enjoying it. But as two pop-culture-obsessed L.A. millennials trying to see if they can build a relationship on snark rather than sex, James Sweeney and Katie Findlay make their own winning contribution to the motormouthed rom-com canon.
Sweeney, who
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