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Reviews Counted:45
Fresh:45
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Average Rating:8.5/10
Consensus: Offering a wonderfully witty script, spotless direction from George Cukor, and typically excellent lead performances, The Philadelphia Story is an unqualified classic.
Runtime: 2 hrs 56 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: THE PHILADELPHIA STORY boasts an incredible cast, but it's Katharine Hepburn's picture in more ways than one. Tracy Lord (Hepburn), a Philadelphia heiress, is about to marry coal-company executive... [More]
Starring: Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, James Stewart, Ruth Hussey
Director: George Cukor
Cukor and Donald Ogden Stewart's evergreen version of Philip Barry's romantic farce, centreing on a socialite wedding threatened by scandal, is a delight from start to finish, with everyone involved working on peak form.
This film is Hollywood at the top of its game.
A seamless comedy about a priggish, upper-crust beauty who finally gets her comeuppance and learns some tolerance.
Every time Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, and Jimmy Stewart connect in a scene, we hear the happy ding! of quality champagne crystal.
Top Critic[Relies] less on physical comedy and more on immaculately delivered zingers.
Romantic comedies are rarely this fabulous.
It has been a long time since Hollywood has spent itself so extravagantly, and to such entertaining effect, upon a straight upper-crust fable, an unblushing apologia for plutocracy.
Top CriticThe Philadelphia Story (1940) is an intelligent, sophisticated, classic romantic comedy (part screwball) of love and marriage, human growth and class distinctions -
The smarties are going to relish Philadelphia Story a lot more than the two-bit trade...
Top CriticIts witty dialogue, romantic complications, and class-skewering satire are hallmarks of screwball comedy, but… it's a more mature and humanistic social satire, a comedy of manners skewering every kind of snobbery.
Boasts qualities other movies merely dream of: prestige wit and drop dead glamour.
Excellent casting, a great storyline and a shrp script mean that this remains a classic of the genre and one of Katherine Hepburn's best roles.
More of an oddball comedy than a screwball comedy, The Philadelphia Story's gender politics haven't aged exceptionally well even if its laughs have done okay.
A parlor drama with witty, Oscar Wilde-like banter and glib repartee
George Cukor gives it the royal treatment with a splendid supporting cast...
Top CriticIs The Philadelphia Story about cutting Katharine Hepburn down to size?
I don't think anyone really cares about the fact that this was intended to be a cunning class satire with a capital C, but it's got big stars, they say cool things, they look good, it's funny, and the right guy gets the right girl in amusing fashion.
Today I don't think anyone really cares about the fact that this was intended to be a cunning class satire with a capital C, but it's got big stars, they say cool things, they look good, it's funny, and the right guy gets the right girl in amusing fashion
Approaching it as a fairytale with a moral--Hepburn meets her prince but gums it up and need to rediscover her own humanity-Cukor directs with stylish elegance that serves the play perfectly-one of his masterpieces and a sampler of Classic Hollywood Cinem
Everyone and everything about the film is mostly perfect, and what the movie ultimately says about the nature of love is still prescient.
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