A delightful piece of utter absurdity and one of director Hawks' most inspired lampoons of the battle between the sexes.
Comment
01/01/00
Bringing Up Baby (1938)
94
%
Tomatometer
How does the Tomatometer work 
Reviews Counted:35
Fresh:33
Rotten:2
Average Rating:8.4/10
Consensus: With Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy at their effervescent best, Bringing Up Baby is a seamlessly assembled comedy with enduring appeal.
Runtime: 1 hr 42 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: A nonstop profusion of hilarious calamities, coincidences, and misunderstandings ensue when an accident-prone heiress turns a sheltered scientist's life upside down. Dr. David Huxley (Cary Grant)... [More]
Starring: Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Charles Ruggles, May Robson
Director: Howard Hawks
Get This Movie
Rent DVD
Click on the "ADD" button to put this movie into your Netflix queue.
Buy DVD
Reviews for Bringing Up Baby
One of the highest high points of the entire screwball comedy genre, with its sharp script and wonderfully balanced leads.
04/02/08
One of the great screwball comedies of all time; wonderful patter; delightful performances by Hepburn and Grant. A true timeless winner.
01/07/04
No review available.
02/04/05
Though it's almost impossible, try to sit back sometime and enjoy this 1938 Howard Hawks masterpiece not only for its gags, but for the grace of its construction, the assurance of its style, and the richness of its themes.
06/26/07
Top CriticOne of Hollywood's greatest comedies.
01/21/06
The speedy, 102-minute film is a total delight, and the performances are so invigorating that it can withstand many multiple viewings without losing its sparks.
05/05/05
Top CriticIt's hard to believe that Hawks' lunatic screwball comedy, one of the genre's best, with top-notch turns by Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn, was underrated by critics and a commercial flop; history proves otherwise.
05/07/06
The great screwball comedies of the 1930s and ’40s are polar opposites of today’s, which makes revisiting them a joy.
04/08/05
One of the finest screwball comedies ever.
02/09/06
The magic of Bringing Up Baby can hardly be confined to the period in which it was made.
02/27/01
Splendid screwball farce: You can't help but love this teaming
07/15/03
Comedian Harold Lloyd called this the most perfectly constructed comedy he'd ever seen, and he was right.
01/01/00
No review available.
02/17/03
If Hawks had a real gift it was the ability of moving things along.
03/01/05
No review available.
07/10/07
Its purpose is only to delight, and it succeeds.
02/26/05
The gold standard of screwball comedy.
01/26/04
Overrated classic comedy with good cast.
10/22/02
A masterpiece.
01/01/00
Latest News for Bringing Up Baby
April 02, 2009:
Five Favourite Films with Bill Nighy
There can be few actors better suited to starring in a film about the golden age of British rock and roll than Bill Nighy. No wonder, then, that he's front and centre as part of... More...
June 22, 2007:
AFI Announces Top 100 Movies of All Time ... Again
Ten years ago the AFI gave us a list of the Top 100 American Films Ever Made -- and when that was done they churned out 15 other lists every few years. And then last night they... More...
RT On Current TV
What’s Hot On RT
Fresh Links
Featured
Best Sci-Fi This Decade 
Techland lists the best Sci-Fi films of this decade.
40 Worst Films of the 2000s
Moviefone takes a look back at the biggest stinkers of the past 10 years.
10 Questions For Zac Efron
The Me and Orson Welles star answers reader questions on TIME.com.
Best Decade Ever!
Hollywood.com's C. Robert Cargill offers his thoughts on what the best decade for film was.
Pee-Wee's Big Adventure
In the AV Club's "Scenic Routes," Mike D'Angelo reminisces about the Tim Burton film.
Promos
Follow RT on Twitter
Get the latest Tomatometer updates on upcoming movies!
IGN RSS Feeds