Mortimer Brewster, a newspaper drama critic, playwright, and author known for his diatribes against marriage, suddenly falls in love and gets married; but when he makes a quick trip home to tell his two maiden aunts, he finds out his aunts' hobby - killing lonely old men and burying them in the cellar!
Arsenic and Old Lace has generally received very positive reviews.
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Arsenic and Old Lace was released in 1944 and has generally received very positive reviews.
Online reviewers have written 618 reviews, giving Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) an average rating of 82%.
Overall, cinema-goers marginally prefer the movie, giving it an average score of 88%, compared to film critics, who gave it a slightly lower average score of 84%.
With a score of 82%, Arsenic and Old Lace is above the average Cinafilm score for movies made in 1944, which stands at 60%.
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