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Bringing Up Baby

1938

Howard Hawks

Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Charles Ruggles, May Robson ...

8.0

32,593

Romance. Comedy David Huxley (Grant) is an absent-minded paleontologist who needs to finish the reconstruction of a dinosaur for an exhibit that can provide good money for the museum. At a meeting with his potential benefactors, Huxley meets Susan Vance (Hepburn) who will complicate all his plans.

	Author	Review
United States	Frank S. Nugent The New York Times	"We were content to play the game called 'the cliché expert goes to the movies' and we are not at all proud to report that we scored 100 percent against Dudley Nichols, Hagar Wilde, and Howard Hawks"	NEG
United Kingdom	Angie Errigo Empire	"Hawks, a master of any genre, was one of the innovators of deliriously frantic, overlapping dialogue (...) Damn, damn funny (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Jeremiah Kipp Slant	"[It] benefits from the swiftness of Hawks pacing and the charm of its two leads (...) 'Bringing Up Baby' has some delightfully comic sequences (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Variety	"There is little rhyme or reason to most of the action, but it’s all highly palatable (...) Under Howard Hawks’ skillful pacing it is an hilarious farce."	POS
United Kingdom	David Thomson The Guardian	"'Bringing Up Baby' is very funny. It leaves one in awe at the speed and timing of Grant and Hepburn"	POS
United Kingdom	Geoff Andrew Time Out	"One of the finest screwball comedies ever (...) Fast, furious and very, very funny."	POS
United States	Richard Brody The New Yorker	"Howard Hawks here reinvents his comic voice, establishing archetypes of theme and performance that still hold sway."	POS
United States	Dave Kehr Chicago Reader	"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."	POS
United States	Raoul Hernandez Austin Chronicle	"Cary Grant never quite pulls off nerdy scientist (...) but Hepburn rarely played sweeter"	NEU

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