At one point Marry confronts her Godmother and demands “Do you think I’m too dumb to work in your fucking library?” Once she starts working, she does tries to be helpful, referring a patron who is looking for "oranges and peaches" to the microfilm section. Actually, the patron wanted a copy of Darwin's Origin of Species. Later a drunken Mary sneaks into the library and starts reading the Dewey Decimal System tables and her anal-retentive personality is transformed. One evening, Mary and falafel vendor Mustafa (Townsend) make love in the stacks and forget to close the windows to keep the rain out. In a powerful speech, her godmother remarks on how Dewey hired women as librarians because they couldn’t be expected to think too much. This is a quirky film, but offers a realistic and extremely positive image of librarians. Briefly continued as a TV series. * Image copyright of Internet Movie Database.