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- 1942
- Approved
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
- 1 h 54 m
- 1942
- Approved
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
- 1 h 54 m
Summary Rival reporters Sam and Tess fall in love and get married, only to find their relationship strained when Sam comes to resent Tess' hectic lifestyle.
Directed By: George Stevens
Written By: Ring Lardner Jr., Michael Kanin, John Lee Mahin
- 1942
- Approved
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
- 1 h 54 m
- 1942
- Approved
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
- 1 h 54 m
Woman of the Year
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Summary Rival reporters Sam and Tess fall in love and get married, only to find their relationship strained when Sam comes to resent Tess' hectic lifestyle.
Directed By: George Stevens
Written By: Ring Lardner Jr., Michael Kanin, John Lee Mahin
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 11 Critic Reviews
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73% Positive
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27% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 11 Critic Reviews
74
73% Positive
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
27% Mixed
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
WOMAN OF THE YEAR is a marvelous comedy-drama, brimming with wit, style, and sophistication.
It's as warming as a Manhattan cocktail and as juicy as a porterhouse steak.
It's very smart, very sleek and one of the great Hollywood romantic comedies. [04 Jul 2003, p.C2]
Woman of the Year certainly has its other auxiliary charms: beautifully textured lighting by cinematographer Joseph Ruttenberg; a luminous, if limited, performance by Fay Bainter as Tess’s motherly aunt; and some enchanting simulations of soft winter snowfall. But it’s hard not to feel berated, in a time that’s seeing the resurgence of a pernicious nationalism, by both the film’s anti-feminist slant and its insistent compulsion to put a box around Americanism.
Watching Woman of the Year today, it’s hard not to see it as a the model for almost every romantic comedy.
The chemistry is great, but the plot and tone are wobbly.
George Stevens’s plodding, straitlaced direction takes much of the edge off this 1941 Katharine Hepburn-Spencer Tracy vehicle.
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Awards
Academy Awards, USA
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
National Film Preservation Board, USA
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
New York Film Critics Circle Awards
• 1 Nomination
