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A New Leaf
Directed by
Elaine May
G
1971
1h 42m
Comedy
,
Romance
7.3
94%
82%
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When Henry Graham's lawyer informs him that his playboy lifestyle has consumed all of his funds, he must avoid sliding down the social ladder. He plans to marry wealthy scientist Henrietta Lowell--and kill her.
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Cast of A New Leaf
Walter Matthau
Henry Graham
Elaine May
Henrietta Lowell / Director / Writer
Jack Weston
Andy McPherson
George Rose
Harold
James Coco
Uncle Harry
Doris Roberts
Mrs. Traggert
Renée Taylor
Sharon Hart
William Redfield
Beckett
Graham Jarvis
Bo
Jess Osuna
Frank
David Doyle
Mel
Fred Stewart
Mr. von Rensaeller
Mark Gordon
John
Rose Arrick
Gloria Cunliffe
Conrad Bain
Professor Heinrich (uncredited)
William Hickey
Smith (uncredited)
John O'Leary
Desk Clerk (uncredited)
Ida Berlin
Maid (uncredited)
Mildred Clinton
Mrs. Heinrich (uncredited)
Trent Gough
Victor the Butler (uncredited)
Carol Morley
(uncredited)
Cindy Rubenfine
Dodi Heinrich (uncredited)
Ellen Stretton
(uncredited)
Jack Ritchie
Writer
Hillard Elkins
Producer
Howard W. Koch
Producer
Joseph Manduke
Producer
A New Leaf Ratings & Reviews
SandyOlson78
May 11, 2025
I seriously started hitting my head on the wall to see if it would make it go by faster
Village Voice
Molly Haskell
The picture as it now stands is very funny indeed, but more charming than uproarious, and quite surprisingly romantic.
Detroit Free Press
Susan Stark
Maybe you can't even remember the last time you saw a purely lovable movie. A New Leaf, Elaine May's airy romantic comedy about a penniless bon vivant's pursuit of a gentle but very wealthy frump, will refresh your memory.
Chicago Tribune
Gene Siskel
A New Leaf is one of the funniest and most tender films I have ever seen.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Myles Standish
[Elaine May] has written, directed and is costarred in [A New Leaf]. In it, she displays a genius tor wry and quietly zany comedy that marks her as a new force in the film field.
Newsday
Joseph Gelmis
A New Leaf is continuously enjoyable and frequently brilliant.
Boston Globe
Kevin Kelly
Someday, perhaps. Miss May's real film will be shown but, until then, even if it is only part of what she intended, A New Leaf is a charming comedy, the best in a long, long time.
Arizona Republic
Phil Strassberg
There is a sense of unevenness in this otherwise funny film. But the verbal exchanges as well as the merry looks, askance and otherwise, which these two trade with one another make it hilarious much of the time.
Los Angeles Times
Charles Champlin
New Leaf achieves the nutty and improbable grandeur of the best movie comedies of the past. Indeed Elaine May carries us off into this crazy world of her own invention in a way that I'd come to think simply wasn't possible any more.
Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
Perry Stewart
It's a rare and wonderful blend of the sort of erudite belly laughs that could be elicited only Miss May and Walter Matthau.
Philadelphia Inquirer
William B. Collins
[A New Leaf] is a certain remedy for the glooms which currently afflict us. It is a very funny movie for most of the way.
TIME Magazine
Stefan Kanfer
A New Leaf may be the first film in which Matthau is miscast.
Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
Elston Brooks
What does matter is that the picture is a comedic tour de force for both principals but -- like so many other movies these days -- has a say-nothing, unsatisfactory ending.
Tablet
J. Hoberman
Matthau makes an amusingly irascible lady killer but May's performance is unique.
The New Yorker
Richard Brody
Reveals the essence of marital love more brutally than many confrontational melodramas.
Village Voice
Calum Marsh
A film of such wit and comic invention that it belongs among the great American comedies.
Variety
Variety Staff
It's sophisticated and funny, adroitly put together for the most part.
New York Times
Vincent Canby
The movie being shown at the Music Hall is so nutty and so funny, so happily reminiscent of the screwball comedies people aren't supposed to be able to make any more, I'm quite satisfied to let things stand.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
[A New Leaf] is not short on laughs, and it defies any kind of trend, remaining wonderfully anachronistic, almost as if it was made decades earlier.
Slant Magazine
Keith Uhlich
Blessed with a perpetual craggy hangdog, Matthau is May's perfect comic foil.
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