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“Comedies of remarriage are a backbone of the screwball genre, and there’s several classics to be mined from the material (The Philadelphia Story and The Awful Truth come to mind immediately). Phffft is not one of these films, as it takes a couple amusing gags, strong comedic actors, and then sticks interminable pieces in-between. The title’s high-concept is more thoughtful than much of the writing. The title comes from a newspaper article describing the noise made when a marriage ends in divorce. It’s a little ridiculous, and the title is more than a little stupid, but that’s the level of commitment we’re working with here. Judy Holliday and Jack Lemmon play the couple whose marriage goes belly up, find it difficult to readjust to married life, and eventual come back t” read more