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- 1949
- Approved
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
- 1 h 41 m
- 1949
- Approved
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
- 1 h 41 m
Summary Domestic and professional tensions mount when a husband and wife work as opposing lawyers in a case involving a woman who shot her husband.
Directed By: George Cukor
Written By: Ruth Gordon, Garson Kanin
- 1949
- Approved
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
- 1 h 41 m
- 1949
- Approved
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
- 1 h 41 m
Adam's Rib
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7.6
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Summary Domestic and professional tensions mount when a husband and wife work as opposing lawyers in a case involving a woman who shot her husband.
Directed By: George Cukor
Written By: Ruth Gordon, Garson Kanin
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 10 Critic Reviews
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 10 Critic Reviews
87
100% Positive
10 Reviews
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0% Mixed
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0% Negative
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This is the best of all the Tracy-Hepburn comedies--and one whose unabashedly feminist screenplay seems more incisive with each passing year. [10 Mar 2006, p.C7]
In a film in which everybody is acting - a point neatly stressed by the stylised staginess of Cukor's direction - the performances (not least from Wayne and Hagen) are matchless.
The on-screen chemistry between Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy was so powerful that they ended up making nine movies together, to huge public acclaim. But in no other film did that chemistry produce such delightfully explosive results as Adam's Rib.
George Cukor employs an unusually large number of long takes, often allowing the inspired spats between his leads to play out in unbroken real time. But the much more likely explanation for the film’s enduring popularity has to be the way it took the gender politics underlying many of the duo’s collaborations and made them the full-fledged focus.
Of Adam's Rib we might say, in short, that it isn't solid food but it certainly is meaty and juicy and comically nourishing.
Delightful, sophisticated comedy sparked by the famous chemistry between Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy.
Cukor's work is too arch, too consciously, commercially clever, but it's also spirited, confident.
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Awards
Academy Awards, USA
• 1 Nomination
Golden Globes, USA
• 1 Nomination
Writers Guild of America, USA
• 2 Nominations
