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Seven Brides for Seven Brothers

1954

Stanley Donen

Howard Keel, Jane Powell, Jeff Richards, Tommy Rall ...

7.0

27,815

Musical. Comedy Adam, the eldest of seven brothers, goes to town to get a wife. He convinces Milly to marry him that same day. They return to his backwoods home. Only then does she discover he has six brothers -- all living in his cabin. Milly sets out to reform the uncouth siblings, who are anxious to get wives of their own. Then, after reading about the Roman capture of the Sabine women, Adam develops an inspired solution to his brothers' loneliness... kidnap the women they want! [+]

	Author	Review
United Kingdom	Emma Cochrane Empire	"[It] bursts with life, colour and songs (...) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Almar Haflidason BBC	"One of Hollywood's finest musicals."	POS
United States	Jonathan Rosenbaum Chicago Reader	"A fascinating glimpse at the kind of patriarchal rape fantasies that were considered 'cute' and good-natured at the time"	NEG
United States	Stephanie Zacharek The New York Times	"While those with overly delicate feminist sensibilities may find the sexual politics of 'Seven Brides' too horrifying to contemplate, the rest of us will want to play the barn-raising sequence"	POS

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