Based on Jack Ritchie’s short story The Green Heart and directed by the great Elaine May, A New Leaf stars Walter Matthau as Henry, a once-rich bachelor who has spent his entire inheritance. Desperate to marry into further financial support, he meets Henrietta (May), a shy, awkward, though independently wealthy botany professor. What follows is an impulsive tale of dubious legal advice, ruthless skulduggery and ferns. A film long believed lost for years, A New Leaf is the very definition of a cult classic and one of the finest comedies to emerge out of the New Hollywood era.