Bringing Up Baby
 | Two-Disc Special EditionDirected by Howard Hawks Starring: Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Charles Ruggles, Walter Catlett, Barry Fitzgerald Turner Home Ent, 1938, DVD Customer Rating: 167 reviews Recommend |
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A WILD & CRAZY HEIRESS WITH A PET LEOPARD NAMED 'BABY' SETS HER SIGHTS ON AN ABSENT-MINDED PALEONTOLOGIST & INADVERTANTLY MAKES A SHAMBLES OF HIS LIFE.
"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
Title: Bringing Up Baby (Two-Disc Special Edition)
Sales Rank: 8083 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 (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled)
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
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- I was a little bit sketchy buying this product because I didn't know how good the quality would end up being. However... the product is great! Amazing clarity in picture and audio! I love this movie!!… More reviews
- The MOST fun you could have with a leopard!
- I love this movie and I am very excited to have it. I prefer this black and white, I think it is more original to the movie. Sometimes the colored versions are "bright and shiny", and I don't like that. More reviews
- Review of Bringing up Baby
- Katherine Hepburn is at her best in this fast-moving comedy abouta girl who is causing major trouble for a professor who is trying to assemble brontosaurus bones for the museum. Bby is a tame leopard she has received. More reviews
- A very delightful movie.
- Bringing Up Baby seems to be the kind of movie that you either like it or you don't like it. There doesn't seem to be an in between on it. The comedy in this movie is not really meant to be on National Lampoon level, but more of a light-hearted chuckle. I think the chemistry between Grant and Hepburn was amazing and this movie had me laughing the whole way… More reviews
- Prudence from Australia
- What a shame that the world isn't like this movie. Silly, harmless people dressed in beautiful cloths caught up in crazy situations. Nobody hurt, nobody harmed and the lovers united. And what costumes! Even in black and white the gowns worn by Miss Hepburn are stunning. Pure escapeism! More reviews
