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Sunny

1930Movie1 h 18 min

57

DecentGoodWatch score

57

DecentGoodWatch score

Summary

A showgirl falls for a society boy but has to win over his family.

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Critics vs audiences
Only audience scores so far
Audiences 52GoodWatch 58
IMDb5.2
Running time
1 h 18 min
Shorter than 9 in 10 music movies, −28 min on the typical 106
typical 10678
Half of all music movies run 94–120 min.
Reach
Streams in 4 countries, rent or buy in 1 more
Released
1930
November 9, 1930
96 years ago
Genres
MusicComedyRomance
Language
English
Original language
Made in
United States
19 of 19
Directing · 1
William A. Seiter Director
Writing · 4
Henry McCarty Screenplay
Humphrey Pearson Screenplay
Otto A. Harbach Musical, Lyricist
Oscar Hammerstein II Lyricist, Musical
Camera · 2
Ernest Haller Director of Photography
Arthur Reeves Director of Photography
Editing · 1
LeRoy Stone Editor
Sound · 1
Jerome Kern Songs
Art · 1
John Hughes Art Direction
Costume & Make-Up · 1
Edward Stevenson Costume Design

Tropes

Cheerful FuneralRare · in 52 titlesChun-Hwa's funeral is celebrated by her reunited high school friends dancing to "Sunny" by Boney M..Growing Up Sucksin 396 titlesThe initial situation of Sunny prior to reuniting, as most of the members failed to achieve their dreams and/or have had their spirits crushed by adulthood.All 33 tropes

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