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Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn star in this stylish comedy-thriller directed by Stanley Donen, very much in a Hitchcock vein. Grant plays Peter Joshua, who meets Reggie Lampert (Hepburn) in Paris and later offers to help her when she discovers that her husband has been murdered. After the funeral, Reggie is summoned to the embassy and warned by agent/friend Bartholemew (Walter Matthau) that her late husband helped steal 250,000 dollars during the war and that the rest of the gang is after the
Dec 5, 1963 Wide
Oct 14, 1997
Madacy Entertainment
All Critics (36) | Top Critics (7) | Fresh (38) | Rotten (3) | DVD (29)
What's going on is sort of confused.
Top CriticA terrifically entertaining comedy-thriller.
Firsttime teaming of Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn, a natural, gives the sophisticated romantic caper an international appeal, plus the selling points of adventure, suspense and suberb comedy.
I tell you, this light-hearted picture is full of such gruesome violence.
Made when the studio system was on its last legs, Charade still feels fresh, quick-witted, nothing like the artificial, airless Hollywood pictures of its time.
Stanley Donen's Charade, one of the great entertainments of the 1960s, finds its way onto Blu-ray with a spectacular visual transfer, courtesy of the unrivaled Criterion Collection.
It's glossy, charming, silly, and far too self-aware to be at all thrilling.
Charming comedy-romance-thriller pairing Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn, intelligently scripted by Peter Stone and directed in distinctly Hitchcockian style by Stanley Donen.
even though the age difference is kinda weird the romance works
A smart Hitchcockian thriller.
Smooth Donen thriller showcasing Cary and Audrey.
Donen's typically slick comedy thriller, ingeniously scripted by Peter Stone, is a mammoth audience teaser.
Stanley Donen's stylishly elegant, largely entertaining romance-thriller teams Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn (then at the height of their careers) for the first and only time.
I gotta be honest here and say that the first half hour of Charade sort of threw me for a loop. It seemed to have a difficult time at first establishing a tone. Whether that tone was mixed with comedy or drama, I wasn't entirely sure. However, once the film finally got going and settled in, it turned out to be
November 11, 2011
Super Reviewer
Perfect romantic-comedy-thriller classic entertainment. This is kind of a Hitchcock movie that set the standard for quality mystery films. It's a tasteful humour colourful characters and intelligent plot make Charade one of the best mystery movie ever made with Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn.The story's strength lies in
November 28, 2006
Super Reviewer
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