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===Critical response=== ''The Miracle of Morgan's Creek'' received overwhelmingly favorable reviews from critics upon release.{{sfn|Jacobs|1992|pages=315–317}} [[Bosley Crowther]] wrote in ''The New York Times'': "a more audacious picture—a more delightfully irreverent one—than this new lot of nonsense at the Paramount has never come slithering madly down the path. Mr. Sturges ... has hauled off this time and tossed a satire which is more cheeky than all the rest...It's hard to imagine how he ever got away with such a thing, how he ever persuaded the Hays boys that he wasn't trying to undermine all morals...Maybe the humor is forced a little, and it may be slightly difficult at times to understand precisely what in heck is going on. But that doesn't make any difference. At those times, you can catch your breath."<ref name=":0" /> Writing in the ''Los Angeles Times'', reviewer Edwin Schallert wrote: "It is a feature that is intensely, even stridently, a departure from the normal Hollywood output...you can have all the fun you wish out of this picture if you won't try to take it too seriously at any time. It belongs essentially to the screwball comedy school, and goes to most outlandish lengths in its climax, which has the misfortune to show up the whole thing."<ref>{{Cite news|last=Schallert|first=Edwin|date=March 24, 1944|title=Sturges Sponsors Hectic Saga of Small Town Girl|page=22|work=[[Los Angeles Times]]}}</ref> Critic [[James Agee]] noted that "the Hays office has either been hypnotized into a liberality for which it should be thanked, or has been raped in its sleep" to allow the film to be released.<ref name="amg">Erickson, Hal [http://www.allmovie.com/cg/avg.dll?p=avg&sql=1:32822 Plot synopsis (Allmovie)]</ref> In a second review, Agee described the film as "a little like taking a nun on a roller coaster{{nbsp}}... The overall result is one of the most violently funny comedies, one of the most original, vigorous and cheerfully outrageous moving pictures that ever came out of Hollywood. The picture also has its faults—both as fun and as cinema{{nbsp}}... Most of the finest human and comic potentialities of the story are lost because Sturges is so much less interested in his characters than in using them as hobbyhorses for his own wit."<ref>Agee, James - ''Agee on Film Vol.1'' © 1958 by The James Agee Trust.</ref> British critic [[Leslie Halliwell]] gave it three of four stars, stating: "Weird and wonderful one-man assault on the Hays Office and sundry other American institutions such as motherhood and politics: an indescribable, tasteless, roaringly funny mêlée, as unexpected at the time as it was effective, like a kick in the pants to all other film comedies."<ref>Halliwell's Film Guide, 7th Edition 1987 ISBN 0-06-016322-4</ref> [[Pauline Kael]] wrote, "This is one of Preston Sturges's surreal-slapstick-satire-conniption-fit comedies, and part of our great, crude heritage."<ref>Kael, Pauline - ''5001 Nights at the Movies'' 1991 ISBN 0-8050-1366-0</ref> U.S. [[General of the Army (United States)|Military General]] [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]] was an outspoken fan of the film.{{sfn|Jacobs|1992|p=317}} ====Contemporary==== Reviews from [[review aggregator]] [[Rotten Tomatoes]] indicate an 87% approval rate with an average of 8.2/10 based on 30 reviews. Its critics' consensus says: "''The Miracle of Morgan's Creek'' finds director Preston Sturges at his most zanily subversive -- not to mention hilarious."<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Miracle of Morgan's Creek - Rotten Tomatoes |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/miracle_of_morgans_creek |access-date=October 6, 2023|website=[[Rotten Tomatoes]]|publisher=[[Fandango Media]].|language=en}}</ref> [[Metacritic]] assigned a [[weighted average]] of 86 out of 100 based on 15 critics, indicating "universal acclaim" and labelling it a "must see".<ref>{{Cite web|title=The Miracle of Morgan's Creek - Metacritic|url=https://www.metacritic.com/movie/the-miracle-of-morgans-creek/|access-date=October 6, 2023|website=[[Metacritic]]|publisher=[[Fandom, Inc.]]|language=en}}</ref> In a positive review of nine out of ten stars by Mike Massie, writing for ''Gone With The Twins'', states the film is "handled with a spectacular hilarity and cleverness; when the hole is dug this deep, the only way out is through further outrageousness."<ref>{{Cite web |last=Massie |first=Mike |date= 20 January 1944|title=The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (1944) - Movie Review / Film Essay |url=https://gonewiththetwins.com/new/miracle-of-morgans-creek-1944/ |access-date=2023-10-06 |website=Gone With The Twins |language=en-US}}</ref> Jeffrey M. Anderson of ''Combustible Celluloid'' gave a rating of three-and-a-half stars out of four, noting the zany tone of the film, and positively questioning how Sturges got away with such a film, especially during the era of the [[Hays Code]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Anderson |first=Jeffrey M. |title=The Miracle of Morgan's Creek |url=http://www.combustiblecelluloid.com/classic/miraclemorg.shtml |access-date=2023-10-06 |website=Combustible Celluloid}}</ref>
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