Pat and Mike
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Actor: Aldo Ray, Katharine Hepburn, Sammy White, Spencer Tracy, William ChingBrand: TRACY,SPENCER
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Format: Black & White, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 95 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2000-09-19
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Warner Home Video
Movie Reviews of Pat and Mike
Movie Review: One of My Favorites
Summary: 5 Stars
This is one of my all-time favorite movies.
For one thing, it is laugh-out-loud funny in its own special way. A lot of the humor derives from the characters themselves, who are innately funny without being aware that they are. For example, Spencer Tracy's character Mike. He manages athletes. He clearly came up from the streets of New York, and his New York slang is endearing, original, and hilarious. He is sui generis, what you see is what you get, and his sudden partnership with the blue-blooded Katharine Hepburn turns the humor up a notch, as he clumsily approaches this beautiful graceful,elegant female athlete from another world, somehow sure enough in his ability that is willing to do what it takes to bridge the gap.
Tracy (Mike) sees Hepburn (Pat) play in a professional tennis tournament. He is so blown away by her ability that he approaches her to offer to be her manager. He is shy and tentative, first because she is so beautiful and elegant, and also because he is aware that they come from different worlds. Mind you, it is clear Mike feels inferior to nobody and that he is his own man.
So Mike starts to chat her up in his New York-ese, avidly chewing gum, both hands in the pockets of his navy pinstriped suit, fedora perched on the back of his head. Showing his own touch of class, Tracy does not let on in any way that he finds Hepburn attractive. Just that he is wowed by her ability. (Interestingly, Mike keeps a poker face about his romantic feelings throughout most of the movie. He reveals tenderness and love at first in the sweetest scene--she is asleep and he covers her with a blanket.)
After Hepburn agrees to have him manage her, they go out for a celebratory dinner. Tracy orders scotch on the rocks, steak, baked potato with butter, and apple pie a la mode. Hepburn orders the same. Tracy shakes his head. He tells the waiter that the lady will have broiled fish with salad, no dressing. Hepburn protests indignantly. Tracy becomes firm and adamant. He tells Hepburn that she has to listen to him or no deal. He says he has a stable of successful clients, all of whom adhere to his strict training regimen. He mentions "Little Nell" as one of his most successful clients. Beaming with pride, he opens his wallet to show Hepbrn a picture of his pride and joy. As it turns out, Rosie is a thoroughbred mare.
The humor and wit do not abate throughout the whole movie, with Hepburn and Tracy complementing each other as smoothly and intimately as yang and yin.
I have seen this movie lots of times, and each time it brings me joy.
Summary of Pat and Mike
A small-time sports promotor takes on a woman champion.Genre: Feature Film-Comedy
Rating: NR
Release Date: 19-SEP-2000
Media Type: DVD
Kate plays Pat Pemberton, a college physical education teacher who excels at just about every sport there is. She's also a great athletic competitor, except when her overbearing, worrywart fiancé, Collier Weld, is around. (As Weld, William Ching does an admirable job in a thankless role.) All Pat has to do is see Collier's face on the sidelines and her golf swing loses its power; her tennis game goes haywire. It takes crooked sports manager Mike Conovan (Spencer Tracy, of course) to recognize Pat's outstanding talent. He takes her on as his most important client and handles her with the same loving care that he gives to his favorite racehorse. Naturally, Pat and Mike's relationship is destined to overstep its professional boundaries. The mutual attraction grows from the moment they meet. Watching Pat walk away, Mike comments to his partner, "Not much meat on her, but what's there is 'cherce'."
The film carries a powerful feminist message, especially considering that it was made in the early 1950s: Pat is undone by Collier, who would rather have her stick to being "the little woman" and forget about succeeding. But with Mike in her corner, Pat can have a great career. Her union with him is a true partnership; everything is, as he says, "Five-oh, five-oh." In the end, he's secure enough to be comfortable as "the man behind the woman." The film features terrific comic performances by Aldo Ray as a bone-headed boxer, a young Charles Bronson (before he changed his name from Buchinski) as a small-time gangster, and Our Gang's Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer as a high-strung bus boy. --Laura Mirsky
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