Spend New Year's Day With Groucho and Company

The Brattle will be screening four of the Marx Brothers classics all day New Year's Day. A Marx Brothers marathon isn't the same as a fistful of painkillers, an ice pack, or a Bloody Mary, but some laughs might make for the best hangover cure of all. (Then again, a Thin Man marathon might be more appropriate.)

The Marx Brothers Marathon will appeal to your inner post-party beast by screening Animal Crackers, Duck Soup, Horse Feathers, and Monkey Business.

However, if you have an absolutely screaming booze-induced headache or if you can only take so much Groucho in one sitting, try to make the screening of Duck Soup. The American Film Institute ranked it one of the top-five funniest movies of all time. (Those five funniest movies depend on your tastes, but Duck Soup keeps good company with legendary comedies like Annie Hall and Dr. Strangelove.) And maybe you can answer the movie's question "What is it that has four pairs of pants, lives in Philadelphia, and it never rains but it pours?"

Showtimes are noon and 7:00 pm for Duck Soup, 1:30 and 8:30 pm for Animal Crackers, 5:10 pm for Horse Feathers, and 3:30 pm for Monkey Business.

Image of Duck Soup from Amazon.