Adam's Rib Rating: Release Date: 22 August, 1997 Retail Price: $24.98 Sorry, this product is not currently available. Cast: Spencer Tracy Katharine Hepburn Elizabeth James Judy Davis Complete Cast (10 total)

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Showing its age but still worth a watch
After Woman of the Year (where you can pinpoint the FRAME they fell in love), Spencer Tracy and Katherine Hepburn were probably never better than in this 1949 examination of sex roles in American society. As battling attorneys, they take on the case of Judy Holliday, on trial for shooting her philandering husband, Tom Ewell (the pre-Singin' in the Rain Jean Hagen plays the Other Woman). Some of the trickery -- the courtroom stunts -- fall a little flat today, and who can be fooled by the David Wayne character, a bitter queen trying to foist himself off as a womanizer? (Probably nobody, least of all this movie's director, George Cukor.) Still, as a portrait of a marriage of Manhattan sophisticates it's as heartwarming as Nick and Nora Charles; and the best sequences are deservedly classics.

So far ahead of its time...
Katharine Hepburn is invariably described as one of the greatest screen legends of all time, and this film embodies all of her classic screen qualities. It is romantic, hilarious, and has a relevant message, even to the modern viewer. I highly recommend this film. She and Tracy had incredible chemistry on screen in all their films, but this (and "Woman of the Year") are my all-time favorites.

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