After running out of funds, Henry Graham (Walter Matthau), a bankrupt, deep-in-debt playboy,  seeks to turn his luck around by wooing shy, klutzy, and botany-fixated heiress Henrietta Lowell (Elaine May), and summarily knocking her off after she says "I do." One of America’s greatest comic legends, Elaine May, made her debut as writer and director in the wonderful A New Leaf. Unanimously acclaimed from the start, but unavailable for many years, it now stands as a classic alongside Harold and Maude, Bananas and M*A*S*H* as a key film in the new direction of American screen comedy in the 1970s.