Rewind, Review, and Re-Rate: ‘Bringing Up Baby’: Director Howard Hawks’s Timeless Screwball Comedy

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Not Rated| 1h 42min | Comedy | 18 February 1938

If I’d have known that the 1938 film “Bringing Up Baby” was a screwball comedy that moves along at a breakneck pace, I probably would have better prepared for it. But perhaps it’s a good thing that I didn’t, since the result of being taken along on this uproarious ride is akin to an unexpected roller-coaster ride of laughs rolling up and down one’s funny bone—each situation that its main characters find themselves in keeps amplifying to goofier and zanier heights.

Ian Kane
Ian Kane
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Ian Kane is an U.S. Army veteran, author, filmmaker, and actor. He is dedicated to the development and production of innovative, thought-provoking, character-driven films and books of the highest quality.
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