In Adam’s Rib domestic and professional tensions mount when a husband and wife work as opposing lawyers in a case involving a woman who shot her husband....zzzzzz....zzzzzzz....what? Oops sorry!
You are absolutely right reader...not as exciting as it sounds!
When a woman attempts to kill her uncaring husband, prosecutor Adam Bonner (Spencer Tracy) gets the case. Unfortunately for him his wife Amanda (Katherine Hepburn)... who happens to be a lawyer too... decides to defend the woman in court. Amanda uses everything she can to win the case and Adam gets mad about it. As a result, their perfect marriage is disturbed by everyday quarrels.
I was promised hilarious, witty repartee in this film but I barely chuckled! And I’m not going to knock Tracy or Hepburn, because they’re legends, I blame the writing! At the end of this film I wasn’t left feeling satisfied...or entertained. In the decades since the film's release, it has attracted the esteem of many critics. NOT THIS ONE!
Like my opinion matters anyway! Sidewards frowny face :(
In several scenes of the film, there are unusually long takes, where the camera does not move for minutes at a time. Most of these scenes happen when Tracy and Hepburn are arguing. Strange that this technique was the only thing in this Rom Com that peaked my interest.
If your one of those radical free thinkers’s known as feminists...you may enjoy this film. The story is a knowing commentary about women's inequality under the law in the 1940s and raises some very topical points still relevant for today’s audiences.
But will someone please shoot the neighbour!! If he lived across the hall from me I would go out of my way to push him over and go to the bathroom on him at least once every day.
In conclusion children, I don’t hate this movie. I didn’t think it was a complete waste of film...it’s considered a beloved classic by many! I just wouldn’t go out of my way to watch it again.
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