What's Up, Doc? (1972)

Several people staying in a San Francisco hotel all have the same style bag... As you might expect, hilarity ensues!

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Though Hollywood spent the entire 1960s trying to make old-time genres work again, most of them resultant films were strained, dated, and willfully blind to the changing times. But then in 1972 this little movie came along and proved that in the right hands, old genres can still work that old magic. All it takes is a brilliant cast, a clever script and a director who learned at the knee of the greatest filmmakers ever. Simple right? Sure it doesn't work all the time (see: Steven Spielberg's so-so 1941) but when it does - WOW!  It's a shame that Peter Bogdanovich has become so marginalized in recent years. Targets, The Last Picture Show, What's  Up, Doc?, Paper Moon, They All Laughed; the man sure knows how to make a picture,  just give him a chance to do it!