Adam's Rib
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Movie Reviews of Adam's Rib
Movie Review: Gotta love Kate
Summary: 5 Stars
Yeah, there's something about us old stick-in-the-mud conservatives. We like the spitfire progressives like Kate Hepburn and co-writer Ruth Gordon, and they like us. There's something to be said for opposites attracting, and that's how Tracy & Hepburn were. It never was more evident than in "Adam's Rib."
Some may say that the themes of male/female equality here are dated. I don't believe so. The same script could be done today with modern trappings and very little would need to be changed. The only real difference is that in 1949 it was a new thought; nowadays some progress has been made but we are still struggling to find equal footing that makes us all feel like things are appropriate. Maybe these issues will never be completely settled; maybe the discussion is the point, not the settling of it.
In any event, aside from the social impact of the issues that take place in this seriocomic picture, the most memorable thing of all is the obvious fondness with which Tracy & Hepburn regard one another. The best acting doesn't feel like acting and, in spite of Tracy's offscreen religious situation that prevented him from divorcing his wife and marrying Kate, and in spite of the dicey morality thereof, it's a pleasure to see them together with a witty script and George Cukor's sure direction. Must see.
Movie Review: Battle of sexes never better. Maximum wit on display
Summary: 5 Stars
The Tracy-Hepburn duo was never better than in this supremely witty, often laugh-out-loud comedy of two lawyers on opposite sides of the courtroom involved in an attempted murder case with the classic love triangle. The triangulators? Tom Ewell, Jean Hagen, and Judy Holiday--all in their first films. The lawyers? Why, Tracy and Hepburn of course--married to each other. Hep, the defense attorney, takes the case to vent her opinions on women's lib--one of the first films to lay it all out in the open on the subject. She defends poor little Judy, the wronged wife. Spence, the ADA, prosecutes to prove that Judy is nowhere near as innocent as she claims.The back and forth here is so sharp you could cut yourself just listening to the lines. And there's the back and forth of courtroom and homefront, too. Hep and Spence go at it in both places and the lines supplied by real life husband-wife team of Ruth Gordon (Harold and Maude) and Garson Kanin are deliciously zingy so much of the time you eat em up even as your tongue is bleeding. Just too cool.
Amazing that this film has not aged at all. One of the great comedy classics and sure to remain so. If I could give this a sky full of stars, I would.
Zingalicious.
Movie Review: witty, sharp and intelligent look at gender issues in society (in the 1950s)
Summary: 5 Stars
ADAM'S RIB is a great example of intelligent, beautiful and thought-provoking cinema, with two of the most gifted individuals to ever grace the screen, Katherine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy. Amanda (Hepburn) and Adam (Tracey) Bonner are married lawyers who are on opposite sides of a case, involving a woman (Judy Holiday in her film debut) who shot her abusive husband (Tom Ewell). While Amanda and Adam stand on opposite sides in the courtroom, their genuine love and respect for each other balances the sparks that fly in their professional lives.
I believe that this is one of the most progressive films made at its time. It took on hard hitting issues like domestic violence, gender equality (or the lack thereof) in society and on the job. Katherine Hepburn's character challenges every stereotype of the commonplace depiction of the "model" 1950s woman. She has a career, brilliant and anything but a pushover. I applaud all the actors, the director, the producer, and all parties involved in bringing this film to fruition all those years ago. It continues to shine today.
Movie Review: Recommended for mature audiences only...
Summary: 5 Stars
What can one say? It's like the original film of The Producers: perfect yet better with each viewing. The complexity & depth of the two main characters,(to say nothing of the amazing spontaneity of the performers), Adam & Amanda has been rarely matched on film, perhaps more readily on stage, mostly in Shakespearean works, but it's all the extras that makes this film soar, the sublime mirrored performances of wife & mistress by Judy Holiday & Jean Hagen (the original Billie Dawn & her understudy in the Broadway version of another Garson Kanin classic, Born Yesterday), the hilarious courtroom scenes & finally (but not definitively) the unforgettable scene with the gun...ummmm, licorish.
Gawd this is a fabulous movie!
Movie Review: One of the best
Summary: 5 Stars
One of the best Tracy-Hepburn films, though I liked Desk Set a little bit better. Still it's a marvelous film, with a great supporting cast including Judy Holliday and Tom Ewell. whose marriage sounds more like a boxing match than a marriage. David Wayne is the obnoxious next door neighbor who keeps playing a song he wrote about Hepburn which irritates Tracy, no end. Story is about two married lawyers one the defense attorney, the other the prosecutor. Hepburn is defending Judy Holliday for shooting her unfaithful husband, and Tracy is prosecuting her for shooting him. The result is that their marraige begins to take on the same issues of the people they're defending. Fun from beginning to end!