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DVD Features:
- Rated: Not Rated
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 1 hours, 33 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: August 29, 2006
- Originally Released: 1950
- Label: Turner Home Ent
- Packaging: Keep Case
- Aspect Ratio: Full Frame - 1.37
- Audio:
- Mono 1.0 English, French
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Starring | Spencer Tracy, Joan Bennett & Elizabeth Taylor | |
| Performer: | Don Taylor, Billie Burke, Moroni Olsen, Leo G. Carroll, Taylor Holmes, Melville Cooper, Paul Harvey, Frank Orth, Tom Irish, Marietta Canty & Russ Tamblyn | |
| Directed by | Vincente Minnelli | |
| Edited by | Ferris Webster | |
| Screenplay by | Frances Goodrich & Albert Hackett | |
| Composition by | Adolph Deutsch | |
| Art Direction by | Cedric Gibbons & Leonid Vasian | |
| Produced by | Pandro S. Berman | |
| Director of Photography: | John Alton |
Entertainment Reviews:
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This ostensibly lighthearted film about Spencer Tracy's Kafkaesque attempts to bring off his daughter's wedding is one of the bleakest films of a bleak decade.
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Chicago Reader
Rating: 4/5 --
Old-fashioned, star-studded, father-daughter comedy.
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Common Sense Media
Nightmarish comedy, about the hunt for a wealthy husband and an expensive wedding.
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Classic Film and Television
Rating: 4/5 --
A honey of a picture of American family life.
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New York Times
Rating: B+ --
Spencer Tracy gives a wonderful, Oscar-nominated performance in the titular role of this popular Minnelli- MGM comedy, which reflected the zeitgeist of post-WII America.
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EmanuelLevy.Com
Under Vincente Minelli's crisp direction, the fun rarely lets up.
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TIME Magazine
Rating: 4/4 --
What makes the movie, and particularly Spencer Tracy's performance (arguably his finest), so exceptional is the manner in which it gently brings up the unavoidable heartbreak in this most enduring and celebrated of traditions.
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Creative Loafing
Product Description:
The comic trials and tribulations that beset a family, mostly the father, prior to their daughter's wedding day. Taylor and Tracy give wonderful performances and it's easy to understand why this was remade in 1991. The colorized version doesn't add much. Academy Award Nominations: 3, including Best Picture, Best Actor-Spencer Tracy, Best Screenplay.
Description by Warner Home Video:
Father of the Bride
"I would like to say a few words about weddings," a weary man says from the middle of a muddle of rice and scattered bottles. What follows is a warm, witty look at what it means to be Father of the Bride.
Spencer Tracy is the father and Elizabeth Taylor the bride in this lively Vincente Minnelli-directed classic. Taylor is glowingly showcased - and reflected in three mirrors when first seen in a wedding gown. Tracy's performance captures every loving father's exasperations and joys as the day approaches. It also captured the fourth of his nine* Best Actor Academy Award* nominations. The film also earned nominations** for Best Picture and Screenplay. Here comes the bride, there goes dad's wallet - and everyone's heart. What sparkling fun!
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