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Overview

User Rating:
7.6/10   7,049 votes
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Director:
George Cukor
Writers:
Ruth Gordon (screenplay) and
Garson Kanin (screenplay)
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Release Date:
18 November 1949 (USA) more
Genre:
Comedy | Romance more
Tagline:
It Will Tickle Your Funny Bone ! more
Plot:
Domestic and professional tensions mount when a husband and wife work as opposing lawyers in a case involving a woman who shot her husband. full summary | full synopsis
Awards:
Nominated for Oscar. Another 1 win & 3 nominations more
NewsDesk:
Screen Legend Katharine Hepburn Dies at 96
 (From WENN. 30 June 2003)

User Comments:
Cheeky magnetic romp saying far more than was thought back in the day. more

Cast

  (Complete credited cast)

Spencer Tracy ... Adam Bonner

Katharine Hepburn ... Amanda Bonner
Judy Holliday ... Doris Attinger
Tom Ewell ... Warren Attinger
David Wayne ... Kip Lurie
Jean Hagen ... Beryl Caighn
Hope Emerson ... Olympia La Pere
Eve March ... Grace
Clarence Kolb ... Judge Reiser
Emerson Treacy ... Jules Frikke
Polly Moran ... Mrs. McGrath

Will Wright ... Judge Marcasson
Elizabeth Flournoy ... Dr. Margaret Brodeigh
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Man and Wife (USA) (working title)
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Runtime:
101 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Sound System)
Certification:
Portugal:M/12 | Sweden:15 | USA:Passed (National Board of Review) | USA:Approved (certificate #14029) | UK:U | New Zealand:PG | Argentina:Atp | Australia:G (alternate rating) | Australia:PG
Company:
Loew's more

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Trivia:
Ranked #7 on the American Film Institute's list of the 10 greatest films in the genre "Romantic Comedy" in June 2008. more
Goofs:
Revealing mistakes: Even though Adam and Amanda are reading about Doris Attinger's arrest in different morning newspapers (he the "New York Globe", she the "New York Chronicle"), the back pages of both papers are identical. more
Quotes:
Beryl Caighn: She tried to shoot me.
Adam Bonner: How do you know that?
Beryl Caighn: Because she did.
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in A Woman of Substance: Katharine Hepburn Remembered (2003) (V) more
Soundtrack:
Farewell, Amanda more

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4 out of 4 people found the following comment useful:-
Cheeky magnetic romp saying far more than was thought back in the day., 4 March 2008
8/10
Author: JohnRouseMerriottChard from United Kingdom

Adam's Rib turned out to be a delightfully cheeky romp with a kicker sense of humour, all acted out with ease by Spencer Tracy & Katherine Hepburn. I love how the film veers from the courtroom right into their marital home and becomes not just about a battle of wills, but a battle of the sexes as well, much fun watching this famous couple go at each other, both at work and at home. The film benefits greatly from the appearance of the lovely Judy Holliday in her breakthrough role, and it amused me greatly to see David Wayne playing a shifty character as I remember him fondly from the Twilight Zone episode Escape Clause in 1959.

8/10.

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