Woman of the Year (Blu-ray)
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 54 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: April 18, 2017
- Originally Released: 1942
- Label: Criterion Collection
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Spencer Tracy & Katharine Hepburn | |
Performer: | Dan Tobin, Fay Bainter, William Bendix, Gladys Blake, Reginald Owen & Minor Watson | |
Directed by | George Stevens | |
Edited by | Frank Sullivan | |
Screenwriting by | Ring Lardner, Jr. & Michael Kanin | |
Composition by | Franz Waxman | |
Art Direction by | Cedric Gibbons & Randall Duell | |
Produced by | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | |
Director of Photography: | Joseph Ruttenberg |
Major Awards:
Academy Awards 1942 -
Best Original Screenplay: Michael Kanin & Ring Lardner, Jr.
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 4/5 --
For anyone looking to add a single Hepburn/Tracy movie to their collection, this is the one.
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Scene-Stealers.com
Rating: 5/5 --
Fine Tracy-Hepburn comedy-romance directed by George Stevens.
Video-Reviewmaster.com
Woman of the Year is an entertaining film with superb work by Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy.
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Variety
Rating: 3.5/4 --
An effervescent but edgy rom-com about love, career, the insecurities men and women felt (and, sadly, still feel to some extent) around burgeoning feminism. [Criterion Blu-ray]
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Groucho Reviews
The premise is promising...But Stevens lacks the courage to make much of the conflict; the film ends with an embarrassing sequence in which Hepburn is tamed and installed in the kitchen.
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Chicago Reader
The film earlier has one of the very best Tracy-Hepburn love scenes, full of the sense of private shelter that they uniquely purvey.
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New Yorker
Rating: 3/4 --
isn't necessarily one of the best films of its era, but it does capture in its essence the complex nature of relationships and the unavoidable way that power dynamics can come to a head
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Q Network Film Desk
Product Description:
This classic romantic comedy was the first film in the long collaboration between Katherine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy. As intellectual, political columnist Tess Harding (Hepburn) and down-to-earth sportswriter Sam Craig (Tracy), they work at the same New York paper. After Tess makes some negative comments about sports on the radio, the two trade barbs in print. Then their editor, Clayton (Reginald Owen), brings them together to make peace. They do so with a vengeance, immediately becoming infatuated with each other. Sam takes Tess to her first baseball game where she quickly ingratiates herself with the other fans, and is surprised to find herself enjoying the proceedings. She invites Sam to her apartment for the evening, but his eagerness is dampened when he finds a couple of dozen of her friends there as well. Despite their differences, and Tess' busy schedule, the two continue to see each other, and the relationship deepens. When the couple decide to marry, Sam finds his desire for a simple, traditional ceremony overridden by the demands of Tess' schedule, and those of her illustrious relatives, which require that the wedding take place almost immediately, in North Carolina. Hepburn and Tracy perform at their peaks, with peerless direction by Stevens, and a wittily observant script. The film's insights on the battle of the sexes come from young screenwriter Ring Lardner Jr., who witnessed the relationship between his legendary sportswriter father and the equally famous columnist Dorothy Thompson.
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