To viewers, some 40 years after this sparkling comedy, of wit and office manners was made, it might look a little staid and trite.
However, if you imagine the pairing of Katherine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy to be a bit like Jolie and Pitt today and that this female dominated office, where the film is set gets intruded by a mysterious man, who ultimately might well make them redundant. The threat of workplace computerisation, before it was even called that makes a ready scenario for a rom-com.
There are no harsh catty put-downs or threatened lawsuits but gentle, intelligent conversation that bubbles through with witty comedy and a natural chemistry between the leads that one does take for granted. People in offices that we'd not give second glance to, and who'd have unsensational but detailed and flawed lives. Naturally, the office relationship spills out into a social one and then turns romantic. As you'd expect - this is Hollywood, after all.
The technology vs common-sense comedy towards the end has been trod threadbare now, but then, would have been obvious and fresh.
Watch this 'cause you love Spencer or Katherine. Better still, together. More so, if it's in colour (as was the version I saw)
However, if you imagine the pairing of Katherine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy to be a bit like Jolie and Pitt today and that this female dominated office, where the film is set gets intruded by a mysterious man, who ultimately might well make them redundant. The threat of workplace computerisation, before it was even called that makes a ready scenario for a rom-com.
There are no harsh catty put-downs or threatened lawsuits but gentle, intelligent conversation that bubbles through with witty comedy and a natural chemistry between the leads that one does take for granted. People in offices that we'd not give second glance to, and who'd have unsensational but detailed and flawed lives. Naturally, the office relationship spills out into a social one and then turns romantic. As you'd expect - this is Hollywood, after all.
The technology vs common-sense comedy towards the end has been trod threadbare now, but then, would have been obvious and fresh.
Watch this 'cause you love Spencer or Katherine. Better still, together. More so, if it's in colour (as was the version I saw)