Houseboat (1959)

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Houseboat is proof that with the right movie stars, they make any old hackneyed script immensely watchable and enjoyable. It doesn’t help when the movie stars are as attractive and magnetic as Cary Grant and Sophia Loren. The screenplay is pure fluff and riddled with clichés – newly single father, unruly children, outsider who comes into the home and begins to fix everything, love story, new ... read more

Tom Winston, a widower, is trying to understand and raise three precocious children alone. He gets a little unexpected help from Cinzia, when the children decide she is be the new maid. She is actually an Italian socialite who is trying to get away from her overprotective father.