Credits
Release Date: 1998
Label: Sony Wonder
In Two Straight Lines - Produced by: Niko Bolas
Score Composed and Conducted by: Michel Legrand
Starring: Frances McDormand, Nigel Hawthorne, Hatty Jones
In Two Straight Lines
Lyrics &
Music by: Carly Simon
Doo doot doot doo
Doo doot doot doo
Life is fine
Twelve of us in two straight lines
The bravest of all is Madeline
Doo doot doot doo
Doo doot doot doo
Life is cool
Cuckoo face, Pepito chases
Circus faces and saving school
In two straight lines we break our bread
In two straight lines we go to bed
In two straight lines
We go upstairs
We say goodnight
And then we say our prayers
Doo doot doot doo
Doo doot doot doo
Life is sweet
Dressed so prim and on a whim
Holding up traffic in the street
Doot doot-n-doot doo
Doo doot doot doo
Doo doot doot doo
Life is swell
Passing the days and thinking up ways
Of knocking the socks off of Miss Clavell
In two straight lines we're on the bus
In two straight lines its up to us
In two straight lines
We're wild again
When Madeline falls
Into the Seine
Doo doot doot doo
Doo doot doot doo
Life is new
When Madeline terrifies a tiger
Not to mention the rest of us at the zoo
Doo doot doot doo
Doo doot doot doo
Life is fine
The twelve of us in two straight lines
The bravest of all is Madeline
Doo doot doot doo
Doo doot doot doo
Life is cool
Cuckoo face, Pepito chases
Circus faces and saving school
Doot doot-n-doot doo
Doo doot doot doo
Doo doot doot doo
Life is sweet (Dressed so prim)
Dressed so prim and on a whim
Holding up traffic in the street
Doo doot doot doo
Doo doot doot doo
Life is swell
Passing the days and thinking up ways
Of knocking the socks off of Miss Clavell
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Film Storyline:
The schoolgirl adventures of Madeline, a flame-haired orphan, are lovingly adapted from Ludwig Bemelmans's classic children's books. His sly and witty writing is transferred to this first-rate film, one that should not be thought of merely as childhood entertainment. Spunky Madeline is most adept at finding trouble. She is also a quick-witted and likable child who can solve almost any problem. Her latest scheme is to keep her school, which is also her home, from being sold by its owner, the recently widowed Lord Covington (Nigel Hawthorne). Unlike most youthful movie fare, this adventure boasts high production values that wisely include colorful Parisian locations. Hatty Jones is all spunky self-sufficiency and sweet innocence in the title role, and Frances McDormand is quite humorous as the stern school-mistress, Miss Clavel.