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Bringing Up Baby
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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786304383179
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, NTSC
ISBN: 6304383177
Label: Turner Home Ent
Languages: English (Original Language), Analog
Manufacturer: Turner Home Ent
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Turner Home Ent
Release Date: October 14, 1997
Running Time: 102 minutes
Studio: Turner Home Ent
Theatrical Release Date: February 18, 1938
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Editorial Review:
"The love impulse in man," says a psychiatrist in Bringing Up Baby, "frequently reveals itself in terms of conflict." That's for sure. For a primer on the rules and regulations of the classic screwball comedy, which throws love and conflict into close proximity, look no further. A straight-laced paleontologist (Cary Grant) loses a dinosaur bone to a dog belonging to free-spirited heiress Katharine Hepburn. In trying to retrieve said bone, Grant is drawn into the vortex surrounding the delicious Hepburn, which becomes a flirtatious pas de deux that will transform both of them. Director Howard Hawks plays the complications as a breathless escalation of their "love impulse," yet the movie is nonetheless romantic for all its speed. (Hawks's His Girl Friday, also with Grant, goes even faster.) Grant and Hepburn are a match made in movie heaven, in sync with each other throughout. Not a great box-office success when first released, Bringing Up Baby has since taken its place as a high-water mark of the screwball form, and it was used as a model for Peter Bogdanovich's What's Up, Doc? --Robert Horton
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Fun and frolic!
No one can be as simply comedic (and clean, too) in slapstick situations as Cary Grant & Katharine Hepburn! This is a good movie to watch when you just want to see ordinary people in absurd, goofy situations. It is great for 'family night' and it is great for an evening alone!
Have fun with it!
Rating: - WHY don't they make movies like this anymore??
I've seen this movie about 50 times and it NEVER stops being funny! It's clean, it's silly, it's just a GREAT laugh without any ugliness or violence like everything THINKS it has to have today to be good. Cary Grant is totally out of his "leading man" character in this movie and he's fantastic! This shows no matter what he's asked to play, he's up for the challenge. Katherine Hepburn is one of my all time favorites and as always, she's at the top of her game as a fast talking, often confusing (to ... Read More
Rating: - Adorable & Quick Witted
This is one of those movies I can watch over and over again. The chemistry between Grant and Hepburn creates a perfect foil for the snappy dialogue interspersed amongst somewhat silly but completely engaging situations.
Movies from this era understand that every character matters, that they add the spice to the movie. Hence, the constable, the gardener and even the dog add to the overall screwball energy. Movies today don't seem to pay that much attention to such small details.
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Rating: - Classic Grant/Hepburn humor at it's best!
The hilarity and hijinx are non-stop! Just when you think it can't get any funnier - it does! This has been a favorite of mine since I first saw it in the seventies! My sister and I were home from school with a bad case of the flu when this movie came on and we couldn't stop laughing all the way through! It was every bit as good as I remembered and the group of teens watching with me who swore they would hate it for sure since it was so "old" couldn't stop laughing either and had to cofess that it ... Read More
Rating: - 5 star package of overrated comedy
"Bringing up Baby" is a very famous screwball comedy which was a box office failure on its release but has become a cult classic. Starring Katharine Hepburn in her first outright comedy, she is at the heart of why the film failed in 1938. In simple terms, there was just too much of her. Whilst spirited and entertaining, she is also irritating and ruthless and it is these qualities which detract from the film. Cary Grant is not simply pursued by this wilful heroine but positively harassed. Many audiences ... Read More
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