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Unintentional Comedy Award

The repeated houseboats and swaggering book-mogul family

In the discussion (4)
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  • The movie's deliberate humor initially leaves the panel unable to identify unintentional comedy, even in Greg Kinnear's performance. — Juliet Litman
  • The father's wife leaving him for the nanny is praised as an intentional joke and explicitly excluded from the award. — Juliet Litman
  • The inexplicable recurrence of houseboats in a Tom Hanks–Nora Ephron movie becomes the clearest unintentional-comedy choice. — Amanda Dobbins
  • Three book executives behaving like supervillain moguls with matching boats are also treated as ridiculous. — Amanda Dobbins
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