Wives on Strike

The wives have had enough. In this sparkling 1920s comedy, a group of women form the Wives' Welfare Club not to play bridge or sip tea, but to air grievances against the inequalities of marriage. When they decide to "go on strike" - refusing to cook, clean, or accommodate their husbands until their demands are met - they nominate the recently married Betty Albright as their test case. There's just one problem: Betty has been married for all of thirty days and swears her husband Thornton is perfect. But as she returns home brimming with confidence, she begins to notice troubling signs that suggest her own marriage may not be the paradise she imagined. With a vampire named Lily de Longpre lurking in the wings and Betty's persistent admirer Reynold waiting in the wings, the strike threatens to upend more than just domestic harmony. This is frothy, feminist farce at its most delightful - a comedy that understands the revolutionary power of wives simply refusing.