Harvey (1950)

All Critics (24) | Top Critics (4) | Fresh (23) | Rotten (4) | DVD (11)

Unhappily, what the film also borrows from the play, and somehow makes more conspicuous, is a tendency to drag its feet for long stretches, especially during the virtually actionless last third of the story.

March 29, 2011 Full Review | Comment (1)

TIME Magazine

Top Critic

Harvey, Mary Chase's Pulitzer Prize play, loses little of its whimsical comedy charm in the screen translation.

March 26, 2009 Full Review

Variety Staff

Variety

Top Critic

If you're for warm and gentle whimsey, for a charmingly fanciful farce and for a little touch of pathos anent the fateful evanescence of man's dreams, then the movie version of Harvey is definitely for you.

March 25, 2006 Full Review

Bosley Crowther

New York Times

Top Critic

Charming, lightweight stuff (from a play by Mary Chase), so long as you can take Stewart's ingenuousness, but it does wear thin.

February 9, 2006 Full Review

Derek Adams

Time Out

Top Critic

Stewart's Elwood P. Dowd is a soft-spoken philosopher and a friend to all -- he's quite disarming, and so is this movie.

September 13, 2012 Full Review

Matt Brunson

Creative Loafing

A modest family film that lays on the sweetness a bit to heavily.

August 15, 2011 Full Review

Wesley Lovell

Cinema Sight

This is a happy movie and leaves a long, lingering warm glow.

March 29, 2011 Full Review

TV Guide's Movie Guide

Great performances lifts this movie above its stilted script and production.

March 29, 2011 Full Review

Kim Newman

Empire Magazine

Henry Koster might not have been the right director for this whimsical fantasy, based on the 1944 Pulitzer Prize-winning play, but Jimmy Stewart and especially Josephine Hull (in an Oscar-winning turn) are superb.

August 3, 2009 Full Review

Emanuel Levy

EmanuelLevy.Com

Its one-note shtick wears thin.

May 29, 2008 Full Review | Comments (3)

Dennis Schwartz

Ozus' World Movie Reviews

Jimmy Stewart a 6' rabbit = a family delight.

October 24, 2007 Full Review

Nancy Davis Kho

Common Sense Media

What makes Harvey great is the fact that it's equally enjoyable as a piece of comedic fluff and as slyly intelligent social commentary.

March 16, 2004 Full Review

Brian Webster

Apollo Guide

Stewart, adorável como sempre (talvez mais), encanta com sua 'insana' simpatia, enquanto Hull arranca boas risadas com o enérgico histerismo de sua personagem.

December 9, 2003

Pablo Villaca

Cinema em Cena

• 1. Elwood P. Dowd: Thank you Harvey, I prefer you too.
  – Submitted by Julio C (8 months ago)
• 1. Elwood P. Dowd: Years ago my mother used to say to me, she'd say, 'In this world, Elwood, you must be' - she always called me Elwood - 'In this world, Elwood, you must be oh so smart or oh so pleasant.' Well, for years I was smart. I recommend pleasant. You may quote me.
  – Submitted by Laura M (15 months ago)
• 1. Elwood P. Dowd: In this world Ellwood, you must be oh so smart, or oh so pleasant, well for years I was smart... I recommend pleasant, and you may quote me.
  – Submitted by Denise J (16 months ago)
• 1. Elwood P. Dowd: There are two ways to live well, you can be smart or pleasant. I've been smart for years, and I recommend pleasant.
  – Submitted by Andrew O (17 months ago)
• 1. Cab Driver: After this, he'll be a perfectly normal human being, and you know what stinkers they are!
  – Submitted by Sanjay R (17 months ago)
• 1. Elwood P. Dowd: Well, I've wrestled with reality for thirty- five years, Doctor, and I?m happy to state I finally won out over it.
  – Submitted by Chris P (2 years ago)

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