Redundant and unnecessary.

When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

On trial for attempted murder, having shot her husband who she caught being unfaithful, a young woman is prosecuted by a conservative lawyer while his pro-feminist wife defends her in this popular comedy starring Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy as the married lawyers in question. The film was clearly quite popular in its day, landing an Oscar nomination for its screenplay and a Golden Globe nomination for Judy Holliday's performance as the wife being defended, however, one's mileage as a contemporary viewer is likely to vary. Hepburn's rants about women never receiving equal rights in the eyes of the law grow tiresome very quickly and the way she twists the attempted murder case to be about sexism (rather than intent to kill) never quite feels right. Hepburn's personality could also only be described as abrasive at best here. While she has handful of light moments (poking faces at Tracy from under the courtroom benches), all her anger and bitterness towards the way women are supposedly discriminated against renders her a rather joyless person. Tracy fares better. His comedic fumbling about in court as his wife surprises him is never all that funny, but he has a superb moment involving some liquorice and his persona outside of court is nicely down-to-earth. In many ways, it is the quieter of the two main roles here, but the quietness allows Tracy to simply emote as opposed to grandstand for the most part. Tom Ewell and Jean Hagen also have solid supporting roles turns here, but Tracy is the one whose presence renders the film endurable.

Domestic and professional tensions mount when a husband (Spencer Tracy) and wife (Kate Hepburn) work as opposing lawyers in a case involving a woman who shot her husband. Kate Hepburn may be the worst actress who ever lived. She is definitely the most irritating actress who ever lived. But, despite this, the movie actually comes out rather entertaining. The gender war is interesting, and the equal rights idea never gets old (especially in a time before women were strongly in the work force beyond being war replacements).An odd thing, though, is how Hepburn's character (Amanda Bonner) seems to want to raise women up, but she comes down very hard on the woman who was breaking up a marriage. This seemed off. First, because it conflicts with the pro-woman theme. But second, it is the husband's responsibility to be faithful, not an outside party's role.

The age old battle of the sexes is the setting here,and who better to play it out than cinema's all time favorite couple,Tracy and Hepburn? A woman goes on trial for shooting her husband,whom she has caught with another woman.The argument is simply this: Should men and women be treated on an equal level.A woman shoots her husband,there must have been a good reason for her to do it.He must be a total dog.Put the shoe on the other foot.A man shoots or harms his wife when she's caught cheating,he's still a dog because there must have been a good reason for her to cheat.The argument may never be settled,but you will enjoy the argument as it is played out in this very funny film.

often billed as a funny battle of the sexes, it really isn't; it's no contest; tracy comes off as asoft-spoken guy who treats his wife pretty well; hepburn on the other hand is frequently strident and rude; he seems devoted to her while she constantly flirts with the neighbor; he treats her respectfully, she revels in humiliating him at home and at work in court; sure, some of the disconnected skits are funny, mainly helped by judy holiday, not hepburn; and his moment of ethical and legal revenge is instantly dismissed by her; overall needed more give and take like other tracy-hepburn movies, and less of the relentless, one-sided pounding where tracy in the end has to pull a girlish trick to win back the woman who treats him as an incompetent fool