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There are two great husband-wife teams (one on-screen, the
other off) involved in this classic 1949 comedy. Not only do Katharine
Hepburn and Spencer Tracy throw comedic sparks as a married team of
lawyers on opposing sides of a high-profile case, but their exquisite
verbal jousting was scripted by the outstanding team of Garson Kanin
and Ruth Gordon. Leading all of this stellar talent was director
George Cukor at the prime of his career. The result is one of
Hollywood's greatest comedy classics, still packing a punch with its
sophisticated gender politics. Arguably the best of the Tracy-Hepburn
vehicles, Adam's Rib shows the stars at their finest in roles
that not only made their off-screen love so entertainingly obvious,
but also defined their timeless screen personas--she the intelligent,
savvy, rebellious woman ahead of her time, he the easygoing but
obstinate modern man who can't help but love her. Screen teams don't
get any better than this. --Jeff Shannon
