The Whanganui Film Society's offering for next week is PG rated comedy - Elaine May's A New Leaf.
The film was Elaine May's 1971 directing debut feature which stars herself and Walter Matthau, and is, according to reviewer Roger Ebert, "one of the funniest movies of our unfunny age."
May, as heiress and botany professor Henrietta Lowell, falls prey to Matthau's scheming playboy Henry Graham who intends to bump her off.
"Is it any wonder, then," wrote Ebert "that the enormously wealthy Miss May falls immediately in love with Matthau, whose sole skill, if any, is putting down Turkish rug fetishists?
"She is, herself, a botanist who dreams of the day when a frond, herb or previously unclassified fern will be named for her.