The read
Critics rate it 13 points higher than audiences do. Scores higher than 91% of the 235 1940s comedy movies in this catalog.
Synopsis
A woman's attempted murder of her uncaring husband results in everyday quarrels in the lives of Adam and Amanda, a pair of happily married lawyers who end up on opposite sides of the case in court.
Ratings
IMDb7.4/10
Rotten Tomatoes96%
Metacritic87/100
Critics rate it 13 points higher than audiences do.
347 audience votes
Key crew
- George CukorDirector
- Ruth GordonScreenplay
- Garson KaninScreenplay
- Miklós RózsaOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Spencer TracyAdam Bonner
- Katharine HepburnAmanda Bonner
- Judy HollidayDoris Attinger
- Tom EwellWarren Attinger
- David WayneKip Lurie
- Jean HagenBeryl Caighn
- Hope EmersonOlympia La Pere
- Eve MarchGrace
- Clarence KolbJudge Reiser
- Emerson TreacyJules Frikke
- Polly MoranMrs. McGrath
- Will WrightJudge Marcasson
