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Overview

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7.6/10   6,585 votes
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Director:
Peter Bogdanovich
Writers:
Peter Bogdanovich (story)
Buck Henry (screenplay) ...
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Release Date:
10 March 1972 (USA) more
Genre:
Comedy | Music | Romance more
Tagline:
A screwball comedy. Remember them?
Plot:
Two researchers have come to San Francisco to compete for a research grant in Music. One seems a bit distracted... more | add synopsis
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Awards:
Nominated for Golden Globe. Another 1 win more
NewsDesk:
Peters Accuses Ex Streisand Of Seducing Co-Stars
 (From WENN. 14 May 2009, 12:20 PM, PDT)

User Comments:
This film IS funny! more

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Additional Details

Runtime:
94 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono

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Trivia:
This film was morphed from the screen adaptation of Herman Raucher's novel, "A Glimpse of Tiger." Elliott Gould, its star, walked off the set and the project eventually came into the hands of Peter Bogdanovich, who in conceiving a remake of Howard Hawks' Bringing Up Baby (1938) switched genders of the lead couple, making the wild, unpredictable Gould character a female, who would be played by, coincidentally, his ex-wife Barbra Streisand. more
Goofs:
Continuity: When they are traveling inside the Chinese dragon and the camera zooms in on their faces, both of Howard's hands are visible holding the horizontal bar inside the dragon's head, but in the wide angle views, both before and after, one of his hands is on the base of the vertical pole holding the dragon head up from the bicycle. more
Quotes:
[Howard walks into the hotel gift shop, wanders around, picks up a big rock, a souvenir of Alcatraz, and starts tapping it with a tuning fork]
Judy: What's up, Doc?
Howard: I beg your pardon?
Judy: We gotta stop meeting like this.
Howard: I think you've made a mistake. You see, I only came in here for something for a headache.
Judy: You're gonna need an awful big glass of water to get that down.
Howard: What? No, you see I was just testing this specimen for inherent tonal qualities. I have this theory about early man's musical relationship to igneous rock formations. But I guess you're not interested in igneous rock formations.
Judy: Not as much as I am in the sedimentary or metamorphic rock categories. I mean, I can take your igneous rocks or leave 'em. I relate primarily to micas, quartz, feldspar. You can keep your Pyroxenes, magnetites and coarse grained plutonics as far as I'm concerned.
Howard: I forgot why I came in here.
Judy: Headache.
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in Evil Come Evil Go (1972) more
Soundtrack:
You're the Top more

FAQ

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12 out of 14 people found the following comment useful:-
This film IS funny!, 1 May 2004
Author: carey62 from University Heights, OH

A friend of mine recently recommended this film to me. I am not a big Barbra Streisand fan so it took me about 20 minutes to get into this film. Once I was in, I was hooked! So rarely do I laugh out loud at comedies from this time period. I especially liked the hotel detective using his "charm" to delay Mrs. Van Hoskins. Kenneth Mars and Liam Dunn were hilarious, too. If physical comedy is not your bag, you may not like What's Up, Doc? But this is definitely one of my favorite comedies...even better than the old comedies to which it is supposed to be an homage. I'm glad someone listed many of the funny quotes from the film in Message Boards. I want to buy this DVD!

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