Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea. —Henry Fielding

03 August 2021

Adam's Rib (1949)


Adam's Rib
is mostly charming and mostly politically intriguing. Katharine Hepburn is very, very good. But the movie falls apart by the end. It ties itself up in just a few too many knots and it doesn't know how to pull itself loose reasonably. 

I also feel like it attempted to undermine its own political positions – it didn't manage this successfully, but it sure felt like it made an effort.

I watched this on HBOmax.

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