Monday, April 28, 2008

I Dream of Jeannie: The Marriage Caper (1965) (TV)

Synopsis [spoilers]: Jeannie hides Tony's important documents in a box but can't remember where she put it [this has no follow-up]. Tony and Melissa's wedding is approaching; General Stone, Melissa's father, has been appointed ambassador in Europe and invites Tony to accompany him to Europe as his military aide. Tony refuses, since he doesn't want to abandon the space project. They come over at Tony's for dinner, and Jeannie is put in charge of cooking, but she doesn't take the food items from their paper boxes to cook them, and everything is spoiled. She magically makes a wonderful dinner appear out of nowhere, and disguises herself as Kato, Tony's Japanese male cook (previously inexistent). Melissa's childhood friend Grover meddles in all of the wedding's affairs, and has been invited by Melissa to be the best man, much to Roger's disappointment. Jeannie is not very happy with the wedding, and warns Tony that he and Melissa are not suited to each other. Tony goes to his bachelor party and is surprised to see Jeannie pop up from the giant cake; he is also surprised to hear from Grover that the honeymoon will no longer be in Jamaica as he and Melissa had agreed, but in Honolulu. The next day he is rehearsing at home the speech he is about to say to Melissa -- protesting against the way he is being treated -- when she and Grover show up communicating that Melissa has given up marrying him and will marry Grover instead -- he has changed since she met him, she says. He is enormously relieved, and Jeannie remarks to herself that he has a lot to learn.

Saw it dubbed in Portuguese.

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