Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9786304383179 Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, NTSC ISBN: 6304383177 Label: Turner Home Ent Manufacturer: Turner Home Ent Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Turner Home Ent Release Date: October 14, 1997 Running Time: 102 minutes Studio: Turner Home Ent Theatrical Release Date: February 18, 1938 Sales Rank: 6434
Amazon.com essential video: "The love impulse in man," says a psychiatrist in Bringing Up Baby, "frequently reveals itself in terms of conflict." That's for sure. For a primer on the rules and regulations of the classic screwball comedy, which throws love and conflict into close proximity, look no further. A straight-laced paleontologist (Cary Grant) loses a dinosaur bone to a dog belonging to free-spirited heiress Katharine Hepburn. In trying to retrieve said bone, Grant is drawn into the vortex surrounding the delicious Hepburn, which becomes a flirtatious pas de deux that will transform both of them. Director Howard Hawks plays the complications as a breathless escalation of their "love impulse," yet the movie is nonetheless romantic for all its speed. (Hawks's His Girl Friday, also with Grant, goes even faster.) Grant and Hepburn are a match made in movie heaven, in sync with each other throughout. Not a great box-office success when first released, Bringing Up Baby has since taken its place as a high-water mark of the screwball form, and it was used as a model for Peter Bogdanovich's What's Up, Doc?--Robert Horton
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Rating: - Best of the Screw Balls
Howard Hawkes can do it all. The screwball comedy was never better and alas never will be better. I suppose you could say this is a gimmick picture as they use a live leopard in a number of scenes. The ... Read More
Rating: - one of cary grant's finest...
This movie is absolutely hilarious! I just love Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburn in this film! She has her own unique character in this film, she is a bit ditzy, but head over heels in love with Cary Grant's ... Read More
Rating: - Please!
This is so BAD! It's not funny, at all. It's simply not funny. No plot, laughs, likable charaters, nothing good. Skip it, skip it, skip it.
Rating: - Fun and frolic!
No one can be as simply comedic (and clean, too) in slapstick situations as Cary Grant & Katharine Hepburn! This is a good movie to watch when you just want to see ordinary people in absurd, goofy situations. ... Read More
Rating: - WHY don't they make movies like this anymore??
I've seen this movie about 50 times and it NEVER stops being funny! It's clean, it's silly, it's just a GREAT laugh without any ugliness or violence like everything THINKS it has to have today to be good. Cary Grant ... Read More
- Best of the Screw Balls
- Please!