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Adam's Rib is a 1949 American romantic comedy-drama film directed by George Cukor from a screenplay written by Ruth Gordon and Garson Kanin. It stars Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn as married lawyers who come to oppose each other in court.
Adam's Rib: Directed by George Cukor. With Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Judy Holliday, Tom Ewell. Domestic and professional tensions mount when a husband and wife work as opposing lawyers in a case involving a woman who shot her husband.
Happily-married lawyers Adam and Amanda Bonner land on opposite sides in the courtroom after Doris Attinger is charged with the attempted murder of her philandering husband Warren.
A courtroom rivalry finds its way into the household when prosecuting lawyer Adam Bonner (Spencer Tracy) faces off against his wife, Amanda (Katharine Hepburn), who happens to be a defense...
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Brief Synopsis. Husband-and-wife lawyers argue opposite sides in a sensational women's rights case.
Adam’s Rib, American romantic comedy film, directed by George Cukor and released in 1949, that was a vehicle for the powerhouse pairing of Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn in a classic battle of the sexes. The plot involves a husband and wife (played by Tracy and Hepburn) who are lawyers on.
In 1949, George Cukor's Adam's Rib took the familiar marriage-career crisis formula of the screwball comedy to its logical conclusion—a comic study of sex role stereotyping and the invalidity of narrowly defined sex roles.
