Woman of the Year
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Movie Reviews of Woman of the Year
Movie Review: A joy!
Summary: 4 Stars
A lot of reviews on romantic comedies and the like talk about this thing called "chemistry" between actors, when it seems the two actors are capable of really presenting true, real life emotions between them. When it comes to the Spenser Tracy/Katherine Hepburn pairing, the word "chemistry" is used quite often. The thing about it is, though, that this stuff goes way beyond chemistry. This is real, honest-to-life drama.
Spenser Tracy's character is utterly relatable. He reacts and he does what it seems any guy of the era, or even today, would do in such a situation. His character is torn between his absolute adoration of Tess, and the knowledge that not only will he never amount to what Tess is, he also is pretty much emasculated by her self-actualization.
And for Katherine Hepburn, who plays Tess, there couldn't have been a better role. Hepburn, who was naturally independent anyway, plays the role of a knowledgeable Woman's Woman without needing an extra breath.
The thing about the films with these two are that they actually present a relationship, not just a courtship and a "and then they lived happily ever after, for all time" ending. They show the real issues with communication, work, space, and borders, everything that must be understood about a person to make it work. And they are absolutely adoring of each other.
Just like in the later film, Adam's Rib (1949), this film presents the issues and friction in their relationship almost spectacularly well from both sides. I can't say that this film was as good as Adam's Rib (George Steven's directing is just a tad off-balanced and the pacing is a little uneven), but at any rate it's a real joy to watch, from the beginning courting to the slapstick ending.
--PolarisDiB
Movie Review: he married a man: or a woman who was as good as a man?
Summary: 4 Stars
So you meet this beautiful dame and it is clear she is out of your class,
but dumb as you are you go after her anyway. And she appears to yield
and you get married,
only for you to find you are playing in the band
behind her work. Everything goes on the rocks through the rapids
in a leaky boat for you and her. I doubt this is a new story:
trying to marry a princess if you were just a boy from town must
be very like this. She has more languages than the UN and you speak
sports, and know the team doctors for the profession football
teams. She can't boil water and you are lost at an embassy party
for a visiting head of state, who went to the Swiss boarding school
in the same town as she did. So what do you talk about after the
bedroom?
This movie implies that there is some French Republican compromise
that can save such a marriage: only Ring Lardner could get away
with this sort of comedy fantasy?
I loved it still knowing that it was just pie in the sky!
Movie Review: The Start of a Screen Team
Summary: 4 Stars
"Woman of the Year" is known more for being Tracy and Hepburn's first screen pairing than for being an oustanding film. It's certainly not a bad one; the dialogue just seems a bit stilted and overly dramatic at times. In lesser hands, this would've been stuffed on a back shelf awhile ago. Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn are extremely talented, though, both alone and as a team, so the end result is a cheerful, electric little romantic comedy. The subject matter -wife has more prestigious job than husband- is actually rather controversial for its time (I wonder how the ending would have changed if it was remade now). It's a joy to watch Tracy and Hepburn together; they rank right up there with Bogie and Bacall as one of the best screen teams of all time.Movie Review: Great Chemistry Between Tracy and Hepburn
Summary: 4 Stars
This is the movie that launched the 25 year love affair between Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn. Never was their inimitable screen chemistry so obvious as here, early in their love affair. Their mutual attraction is palpable and Hepburn especially seems to have trouble keeping her eyes (or her hands) off Spencer. Who can blame her?Tracy, as always, is absolutely brilliant in this movie, which drags in places and would be better had they kept the camera trained on only Spence and Kate. But no matter, this is their first pairing and began a string of movies which are almost all geniune classics.
If you want to see superb acting, look no further Spencer Tracy who is one of the deserved legends of American cinema.
Movie Review: "I've just launched Gerald."
Summary: 4 Stars
This was the first screen pairing of Spencer Tracy and Katherine Hepburn. Tracy is a sportswriter and Kate a world famous political commentator. They fall in love an dmarry, but the marriage sours when Kate can't make the switch from world famous personality to wife. The first half is very good - the chemistry between Kate and Tracy is exciting to watch. But the second half, with the marriage on the rocks, is pretty draggy; the kitchen domestic scene near the end after Kate returns after almost walking out on the marriage seems to go on forever. There's a great scene at a baseball game near the beginning of the movie.