Comedian Harold Lloyd called this the most perfectly constructed comedy he'd ever seen, and he was right.
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01/01/00
Bringing Up Baby (1938)
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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
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Reviews for Bringing Up Baby
One of the finest screwball comedies ever.
02/09/06
There are many who make the argument that Bringing Up Baby is a forgotten treasure ... Don’t believe a word of it.
02/28/05
One of those movies that seems to improve upon repeat viewings.
03/18/05
Bringing Up Baby (1938) is one of versatile director Howard Hawks' greatest screwball comedies and often considered the definitive screwball film.
01/01/00
The zaniest, most delightful screwball comedy of them all… Hepburn at her effervescent best and Grant in a marvelous performance combining stuffiness and injured dignity with his usual debonair charm.
06/24/03
The great screwball comedies of the 1930s and ’40s are polar opposites of today’s, which makes revisiting them a joy.
04/08/05
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 CriticThe magic of Bringing Up Baby can hardly be confined to the period in which it was made.
02/27/01
If Hawks had a real gift it was the ability of moving things along.
03/01/05
It'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 most comic romance, the most romantic comedy, a sublime reminder of why the beginning of love is called "falling."
04/13/02
A masterpiece.
01/01/00
If you've never been to the movies, Bringing Up Baby will be all new to you -- a zany-ridden product of the goofy farce school. But who hasn't been to the movies?
05/20/03
Top CriticThe 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 CriticIts purpose is only to delight, and it succeeds.
02/26/05
One of Hollywood's greatest comedies.
01/21/06
Much like “Singin’ In The Rain,” “Bringing Up Baby” maintains a level of energy that is almost impossible to achieve. The story, the dialogue and the acting move so fast that one cannot help but get caught up in this 90-minute joke
02/28/03
There is little rhyme or reason to most of the action, but it's all highly palatable.
04/02/08
Top CriticA comic classic, plus bonuses for animal lovers.
01/28/05
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