Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #4079 in DVD
• Released on: 2006-03-06
• Rating: Universal, suitable for all
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Formats: Black & White, Dubbed, Full Screen, PAL
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: Arabic, Dutch, English, French, German, Hindi, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Turkish
• Dubbed in: German, Italian, Spanish
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 91 minutes

Synopsis
Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant team up in this classic George Cukor comedy about love that finally finds its mark. Johnny (Grant) has just met the girl of his dreams, so he proposes; she happily accepts. However, he soon discovers that his lovely bride-to-be, Julia (Doris Nolan), comes from a wealthy Park Avenue family, with a father who likes to make all the decisions and to whom she seems incapable of defying. Her unconventional sister, Linda (Hepburn), knows she wants something different from a mapped-out life; she also discovers she's falling in love with Johnny. Grant's effervescent performance is timeless, and his onscreen chemistry with Hepburn electric. Based on the 1928 play by Philip Barry, and the second time the story was adapted to the screen, this version established the rules for intelligent romantic comedies and provided a template from which the deft Cukor could further expand.

Customer Reviews

1930s commedy at its best
This is one of the best teamings of grant and hepburn. I won't tell you what is going to happen but the build up to the inevitable is brillaintly acted and paced. It's a gentler and more well observed than the screwball antics of 'bringing up baby' and much more in the style of 'the philadelphia story'. I'm not saying it's predictable in any way. It's one of those situations where you want the ending you get and can't wait for it to happen.
I love the pairing of grant and hepburn as much as grant and irene dunne, check out 'the awful truth' and 'my favourite wife' if you want to see a woman get the better of grant! Grant and hepburn as a team are superlative and I prefer them to hepburn and spencer tracy.
The observations on money and success are still relevant to today and we should all take heart from this.
I love this film and it it is definitely in my top ten. I cannot recommend it enough.

Fast-paced, period piece
I was a bit disappointed after my expectations were raised by the review in the Halliwell film guide where it gets a high rating and is described as "hilarious". It's a stylish film in appearance, the actors perform with great verve, but it's dated and the comedy depends on slap-stick rather than wit. Worth-seeing, but not a classic.

Cary Grants best
This film is far from perfect but it is the best Grant, Hepburn colaboration of there careeers. It beats sylvia Saint, Philadelphia story and even in my opinion, Bringing up baby. It doesn't have the same production values nor even the plot as those films but it simply works as the perfect romantic comedy. It's also the only film i can think of where Grant displays his expertise as an acrobat and it's the only film where i actually sympathised with Katherine Hepburns character (i usually find her quite irritating)

The story is very simple. Boy meets girl. Boy meets family of girl. Girls sister falls for Grant. Girl turns out to be wrong for him. Sister turns out to be right for him. Simplistic but believable and rewarding.

It's warm, genuine and entertaining....prabably my favourite Grant film