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Bringing Up Baby, 1938

Starring: Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant

Directed by: Howard Hawks

Written by: Dudley Nichols

Language: English

Country: USA

Runtime: 102 min

MPAA Rating:

Rating:8.1

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Bringing Up Baby can be described as offbeat, witty, and stylized. The plot revolves around a battle of the sexes, opposites attracting, and a situation where nothing goes right. Its comic aspect comes from screwball humor. Bringing Up Baby's main genres are comedy, romance, and drama. In approach, it is realistic. It is located in Connecticut and New York. Bringing Up Baby takes place in the 1930s. Visually, it is black and white. The movie has received attention for being a classic, essential viewing, and an award winner. Bringing Up Baby is well suited for a girls' night and a date night.

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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) is a straitlaced paleontologist juggling three important events at once: the arrival of an extremely rare bone needed to complete his brontosaurus skeleton; a meeting to ask for a million dollars for his museum from a wealthy donor; and his impending marriage to the humorless Miss Swallow (Virginia Walker). Into David's life comes Susan (Katharine Hepburn), a free-spirited young woman who seems to bring trouble wherever she goes. Thanks to Susan, David finds himself involved in one ridiculous situation after another, and soon the two are prowling around a country estate looking for the missing dinosaur bone, hunting for a lost pet leopard named Baby, and somehow falling in love. Grant and Hepburn form a sharp-witted and hysterical comic duo, and Howard Hawks directs Bringing Up Baby with the control of a master, creating a shining example of brilliant screwball comedy.

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Language:	English
Country:	USA
Release date:	16 February 1938
Runtime:	102 min

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Katharine Hepburn

as Susan Vance

Cary Grant

as Dr. David Huxley

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I`m a big fan of the late 30s/early 40s screwball comedies. The Mount Rushmore of these movies, to me anyway, are `It Happened One Night`, `You Cant Take it with You`, `His Girl Friday` and this one. As of 10/19/10 the others are instant watch, this... Read and rate it

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If you've never seen screwball comedy and only want to see one, this is the one to see. Read and rate it

20.September.2010
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