Adam's Rib

1949 | USA | NR | 101 min.

Showings

Open Space Outdoor Cinema Thu, Jul 28, 2016 9:45 PM
Film Info
Section:Open Space
Release Year:1949
Runtime:101 min.
Rating:NR
Production Country:USA
Original Language:English
Cast/Crew Info
Cast:Spencer Tracy
Katharine Hepburn
Judy Holliday
Tom Ewell
David Wayne
Director:George Cukor
Produced by:Lawrence Weingarten
Screenwriter:Ruth Gordon
Garson Kanin
Cinematography:George J. Folsey
Editing By:George Boemler

Description

They just don’t make smart romantic comedies like this any more—but maybe they would if more women wrote them, as Oscar-winner Ruth Gordon (Maude in “Harold and Maude”) did in 1949. Sparkling, sophisticated, and ineffably entertaining, this ultimate battle-of-the-sexes is told with a fiery feminist savvy decades ahead of its time. A prosecutor (Spencer Tracy) finds himself on the opposite side of the aisle from his defense lawyer wife (Katharine Hepburn) when she takes on a client charged with the attempted murder of her philandering husband. The courtroom conflict soon becomes a source of marital discord as the headline-making case turns into a battleground for sexual equality. Hostilities arise, chauvinism is exposed, barbs are traded, and zingers crackle in this very best of the Tracy-Hepburn vehicles. The only thing we’d object to? You missing it.