Drama critic Mortimer Brewster\u2019s engagement announcement is upended when he discovers a corpse in his elderly aunts\u2019 window seat. Mortimer rushes to tell Abby and Martha before they stumble upon the body themselves, only to learn that the two old women aren\u2019t just aware of the dead man in their parlor, they killed him! Between his aunts\u2019 penchant for poisoning wine, a brother who thinks he\u2019s Teddy Roosevelt, and another brother using plastic surgery to hide from the police \u2013 not to mention Mortimer\u2019s own hesitancy about marriage \u2013 it\u2019ll be a miracle if Mortimer makes it to his wedding. Arsenic and Old Lace is a classic black comedy about the only thing more deadly than poison: family.<\/p>\n