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What's Up, Doc?

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What's Up, Doc?
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NR,1hr 34min
Genre:
Comedy
Release:
1972
Director:
Peter Bogdanovich
Distributor:
Warner Home Video
Starring:
Barbra Streisand, Ryan O'Neal, Kenneth Mars  ...more
Synopsis: With Howard Hawks's Bringing Up Baby (1938) as his blueprint, Peter Bogdanovich resurrected and payed homage to 1930s screwball comedy in What's Up, Doc? (1972). When wacky co-ed Judy Maxwell (Barbra Streisand, in the Katharine Hepburn part) spies nebbishy musicologist Howard Bannister (Ryan O'Neal in bespectacled Cary Grant mode) in a San Francisco hotel lobby, she decides that Howard and his precious igneous rocks are right up her alley. Too bad Howard already has a fiancée, the propriety-fixated ... Full Synopsis
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Brendon Hanley, AMG Review
Like many of his early films, director Peter Bogdanovich's What's Up Doc? is informed by a strong sense of the history of American cinema. Essentially a remake of Howard Hawks' Bringing Up Baby -- with an extensive, Buster Keaton-style chase scene planted in the middle -- Doc is an obvious homage to the madcap screwball comedies of the 1930s, updated for the swinging early 1970s. The end result is ... Full Review
Featured Cast
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Barbra Streisand
Judy Maxwell
Ryan O'Neal
Howard Bannister
Kenneth Mars
Hugh Simon
Austin Pendleton
Frederick Larrabee
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