

A Very Special Favor
1965-08-02 · 105 min · ★ 5.8
The long-lost father of a frigid, uptight Freudian psychologist contracts a wealthy American playboy who owes him a favor to woo his daughter.
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- Directors
- Michael Gordon
- Production companies
- The Lankershim Company, Universal Pictures
- Countries
- United States of America
- Status
- Released
Top Cast
Rock HudsonPaul Chadwick
Leslie CaronDr. Lauren Boullard
Charles BoyerMichel Boullard
Walter SlezakEtienne
Dick ShawnArnold Plum
Larry StorchHarry the Taxi Driver
Nita TalbotMickey the Switchboard Operator
Norma VardenMother Plum
George FurthPete
Marcel HillaireClaude
Jay NovelloRene
Stafford ReppBartender
Frank De VolDesk Clerk
John HardingDr. Lambert
Don BeddoeMr. Calvin Ruthledge (uncredited)
Helen BrownMrs. Ruthledge (uncredited)
Paul BryarMac (Hotel Doorman) (uncredited)Title information and images are supplied by TMDb. Explore our discovery guide for advice on comparing metadata and legal viewing options.
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Veronica is a white-bread beauty searching for a good man in Los Angeles. While slam dancing at a Halloween rave, she meets Abel, a sensitive poet. Then she meets Zed, a supersexy tattooed drummer with incredible biceps. Who will she choose? Does she go for true love or cheap sex? She can't decide so she chooses both. But after managing to nurture a picture-perfect threesome, along comes Ernest, a rich movie director with deep baby blues that sweep Veronica off her feet. What's a girl to do now?

A fussy celebrity caterer, a blind woman, a tour-bus guide and an inexperienced wedding planner search for love.

A young Englishman marries a glamorous American. When he brings her home to meet the parents, she arrives like a blast from the future - blowing their entrenched British stuffiness out the window.

When billionaire Jean-Marc Clement learns that he is to be satirized in an off-Broadway revue, he passes himself off as an actor playing him in order to get closer to the beautiful star of the show, Amanda Dell.

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A young man in a tricky situation follows the advice of his unconventional best friend and uses social media to create a fake boyfriend to keep his awful ex-lover out of his life. But everything backfires when he meets the real love of his life, and breaking up with his fake boyfriend proves hard to do.
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