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"Released: November 18, 1949Director: George Cukor*****The fundamental problem with Adam's Rib, featuring a married couple at odds over a court case, is Amanda's (Katharine Hepburn) position: a cheating husband is held to a different standard than a cheating wife would be when confronting the lover-on-the-side with a gun. There is no doubt Doris Attinger (Judy Holliday) did shoot her husband and tried to shoot his mistress. Amanda wants to make this the ultimate equality fight between the sexes while Adam sees it as a strict case of the law.The only thing which keeps the film, a screwball comedy apparently, afloat is the interplay between the two leads. Verbally sparring with one another and making laughs where none should be (notice the door slamming episode) is more than just screen chemistry or good acting: it's people who understand how the other works...and uses that against them. The story and supporting players all let the duo down, though.For a screwball comedy, there is ... "
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"OK, so maybe this film isn't directly about divorce, but it feels like it to me. Ostensibly, Adam's Rib is meant to be a comedy about the war between the sexes, where what seems at first to be the perfect marriage in the home nearly gets decimated when the couple, equally feisty lawyers inhabited by top thespians Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy, start getting a little too competitive in the courtroom instead. Reviewing the film is futile for me, because despite the facts it is supremely well-produced on nearly every level, and that I do get the comedy, however dark, writ large in the material, it reads as nothing but drama to me.Perhaps taking a cue from when I was twelve and my parents were going through their troubles, leading to a nasty and personally scarring divorce, any film that has couples arguing, let alone one that has the word "divorce" in it, tends to put me at unease. At that age, when the Hayley Mills version of The Parent Trap showed on NBC one ... "
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