Sexy devil

The roots of the book that this was adapted from can be found with Faust and Washington Irving, with follow-up work in Archibald MacLeish and the musical "Scratch." Among the film adaptations, All That Money Can Buy (1941), which adapts Benet's Faust for the first time, is worthy of note. A now we finally get Shortcut to Happiness? It's not a very good debut from Baldwin as a director. The tug-of-war with the producers was apparently meant to result in a second Bedazzled. Although this does have an all-star cast, especially the excellent and devilish Jenn Love, the story will have to wait for another adaptation to be sufficiently rehabilitated. (21/02/2017)

A dumb variation on a Faustian tale aimed at Americans, so (and this can't possibly be a spoiler) it must have a happy ending. Perhaps the most striking thing about Shortcut to Happiness is the direct proportion "the better the actor, the more boring they are". (02/09/2011)