Bringing Up Baby

Two-Disc Special Edition

Starring: Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Charles Ruggles, Walter Catlett, Barry Fitzgerald

Turner Home Ent, 1938, DVD

Product Description

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Genre: Feature Film-Comedy
Rating: NR
Release Date: 1-MAR-2005
Media Type: DVD

"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

Product Details

Title: Bringing Up Baby (Two-Disc Special Edition)
Sales Rank: 5916 in DVD
Actor: Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Charles Ruggles, Walter Catlett, Barry Fitzgerald
Director: Howard Hawks
Studio: Turner Home Ent, 2005-03-01, Theatrical Release: 1938-02-18
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, DVD, Original recording remastered, Special Edition, Subtitled, NTSC, Acpect Ratio 1.33:1
Languages: English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), English (Original Language)
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Region Code: 1
Running Time: 102 minutes
Item Dimensions: 0.22 pounds
Package Dimensions: 7.1 x 5.42 x 0.58 inches, 0.18 pounds

Customer Reviews

Over-rated nonsense: Just finished watching this and I hated it. I normally like Grant and Hepburn, but here they have little or no chemistry and little in the way of direction. A fairly promising beginning decends into an unfunny mess. The plot is non-existent. The script is worse and the over-acting is idiotic and just embarrassing. (Barry Fitzgerald was never funny anyway.)An undeserved… More reviews

I'll bring up this baby as much as I want!: I'm kind of shocked that this film did so poorly upon the time of its release. Watching it now, it really holds up as funny, intriguing and charming. I personally love those 30's screwball comedies, and this film is certainly one of them. The slick combination of Hepburn, Grant and that giant cat, as well as witty banter and slaphappy character development help… More reviews

Not Funny: I watched this movie because I had read reviews stating it was hilarious. It was not. This movie was not funny at all, in fact it was extremely annoying. Katherine Hepburn's character was so irritating I had a hard time watching the entire thing. As someone else mentioned, there was no chemistry between the two of them. Cary Grant made me half chuckle once.… More reviews

Disappointed...: I normally don't write negative reviews, as I don't feel it's worth the time. This was an exception, as it was rated so highly on AFI's top 100 movies of all time, as well as other lists.
The movie from the beginning was difficult to watch, with Hepburn being extremely off in this role, and Grant having a few good moments. The script… More reviews

A Must Have for the Classic Moive Fan: Bringing Up Baby with Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant is one of the all time best comedy movies. This madcap adventure will keep you laughing from beginning to end. Hepburn and Grant have a perfect natural timing to their comedy and in my opinion they were one of the best comedy duos of all time. To me they were a much better match… More reviews