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Movie Overview
Cast
• Cary Grant
• Katharine Hepburn
• James Stewart
Director
• George Cukor
MPAA Rating
Not Rated
The Philadelphia Story (1940)

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OFCS Rating: 100% Fresh
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4.5/5
"Everyone and everything about the film is mostly perfect, and what the movie ultimately says about the nature of love is still prescient."  Filmcritic.com  Christopher Null

4.5/5
"A parlor drama with witty, Oscar Wilde-like banter and glib repartee"  All Movie Guide  Dan Jardine

B+
"A very funny film."  Ozus' World Movie Reviews  Dennis Schwartz

5/5
"You could...fill a book with all the magical things that make this witty, swift, and wistful romantic comedy so impossibly good. Hollywood doesn't make romantic comedies like this anymore."  Netflix  James Rocchi

4/4
"Is The Philadelphia Story about cutting Katharine Hepburn down to size?"  Slant Magazine  Jeremiah Kipp

3/4
"More of an oddball comedy than a screwball comedy, The Philadelphia Story's gender politics haven't aged exceptionally well even if its laughs have done okay."  MovieMartyr.com  Jeremy Heilman

A
"Its witty dialogue, romantic complications, and class-skewering satire are hallmarks of screwball comedy, but… it's a more mature and humanistic social satire, a comedy of manners skewering every kind of snobbery."  Decent Films Guide  Steven D. Greydanus
OFCS Rating: 100% Fresh
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