Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.

The acting in this movie is really good.

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

Assistant director: Tom Andre. Gag consultant: Buster Keaton. Sound recording: Douglas Shearer. Producers: Carey Wilson, Lou L. Ostrow. Copyright 13 July 1938 by Loew's Inc. Presented by Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer. New York opening at the Capitol, 21 July 1938 (ran 2 weeks). U.S. release: 2 July 1938. Australian release: 15 September 1938. 9 reels. 8,199 feet. 91 minutes.SYNOPSIS: A pal asks Andy Hardy to keep the wolves away from his sexy girlfriend.NOTES: Academy Award, Mickey Rooney, best male juvenile of 1938. Douglas McPhail had a major role, but his entire part ended up on the cutting-room floor. Number 9 in The Film Daily annual "Ten Best Pictures" poll of U.S. film critics. Negative cost: approx. $250,000. Initial domestic rental gross: $2 million. Number 4 in the series. COMMENT: Just about all critics regard this one as the best of the series, and it's not hard to realize why. In four words: Judy Garland, Lana Turner.To take Miss Garland first. Counting shorts, this one numbers as her 13th appearance before the cameras. She is an absolute delight. Not only does her personality and singing voice come across remarkably well, but in Lester White's glossy yet muted lighting, she looks most attractive into the bargain. Our only regret that her part was trimmed before release and that two of her songs, "Easy to Love" and "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen", were jettisoned. She's left with three, but five would have been a real treat, especially as, for once, her voice is so deftly recorded.And now Lana. Counting her work as a race crowd extra in A Star Is Born (1937) in which you can only see the back of her head, Love Finds... marks not only her fifth movie appearance, but the first time she essayed an unsympathetic characterization. She comes over with such astonishing effectiveness you remember her role long after you've forgotten the rest of the plot. True, she's handed some astringent lines, but she makes the most of them (thanks no doubt to off-screen coaching by Mervyn LeRoy to whom she was under personal contract at the time. Lana later acknowledged that LeRoy's guidance in the early stages of her career proved "invaluable").Unfortunately, as with Judy Garland's part, Lana's role has also been shortened in the cutting-room. The movie's emphasis now rests squarely upon Rooney and Stone who either share or are present in just about all the movie's scenes except for some wonderful solo footage involving Judy. Cecilia Parker hardly remains in the movie at all (her romantic involvement with Douglas MacPhail has been completely eliminated) except for an occasional squabble with Andy. And even Fay Holden now finds herself written out of the central action, with not even so much as a single cut to the Canadian setting in which her sick mother apparently recovers like magic.It's interesting that critical enthusiasm for this entry can be evenly divided among contemporary and present-day reviewers. In 1938, no less than 180 critics across the nation voted Love Finds... as the number one movie of the year. In 2017, just about all of us agree that here is the best of the entire 16-picture series. No masterpiece certainly, but Judy and Lana make it well worth watching.

Looking at the credits, one would think this would have been one of the stronger Hardy family films, but it is not. Not saying it's bad, but it's nothing special. Yet, there are the Hardy family, Judy Garland, and a young Lana Turner (filmed during here second year in films when she was sometimes still uncredited or had scenes deleted).Here, Andy (Mickey Rooney) has girl trouble -- too many girls. There's Polly Benedict, a somewhat loose REDHEAD (Lana), and a too young (really?) visitor next door (Judy). Of course, Andy was always having girl trouble...just not so many at one time. And he's trying to buy an old beat-up car. And his grandmother has had a stroke and Mother Hardy has to go to Canada.Why do I say this is not one of the stronger Hardy family films? First off, Andy Hardy is usually portrayed as a fairly nice kid with decent manners. Not here. He treats Judy Garland's character shabbily. He takes advantage of -- for money -- Lana Turner's character. And he's unfaithful to Polly Benedict (while the cat's away the mice will play). Second, I thought I bet Judy Garland will have a couple of swell numbers here. In my estimation, perhaps the worst musical numbers she had in any film.So, for me, I'd say that unless you're intent on watching all the Hardy films, pass this one by.

Directed by George B. Seitz, with a screenplay by William Ludwig, this slightly above average family comedy-drama sprinkled with innocent teenage romance marks the fourth in the (Andy Hardy) series based on Aurania Rouverol's play (Skidding), which began with A Family Affair (1937).Mickey Rooney plays the titled character, a rambunctious 17 year old, and Lewis Stone plays his wise, caring father (and) Judge Hardy. Cecilia Parker plays Andy's, frequently separated from her husband, married older sister. Fay Holden, who plays Andy's mother in the series, is absent for most of this film's story as is Aunt Millie, played by Betty Ross Clarke, who took Sara Haden's place in a couple of these films. 'Mother' has gone to see and stay with her mother, who'd just had a stroke, and Millie goes too. Ann Rutherford plays Andy's girlfriend Polly Benedict, as usual, but the story in this one features some conflicts in their relationship:Andy's friend 'Beezy' (George Breakston) asks him to 'keep' (by dating) his girlfriend Cynthia Potter (Lana Turner, in her fifth film) away from the other boys while he's out of town during Christmas break. Since Polly is also to be away for the Christmas holiday, and Beezy is willing to pay Andy the eight dollars he needs to buy a car (he'd already paid $12), Andy agrees ... though kissing is the only thing she (Lana Turner!) wants to do and, inexplicably, this becomes tiresome for him.Simultaneously, Betsy Booth (16 year old Judy Garland, in only her second pairing with Rooney, playing a 13 year old) comes to visit her family, that lives next door to the Hardys, for Christmas. Naturally, she (sings and) soon meets Andy and develops a crush on him. At first, this further complicates Andy's love life; but later, she helps him out of a couple of inevitable jams:Beezy meets another girl while away (in Chicago?) and tells Andy that he can have Cynthia AND Polly returns home early, in time to attend a Christmas Eve dance to which, unbeknownst to her, Andy had already promised to take Cynthia.Throughout the film, Judge Hardy listens to the problems of his children and gives sage advice and/or comfort. For his part, Rooney is particularly animated as Andy, swinging between the exuberant highs of teenage dating and the doldrums of adolescence.

What were the producers thinking? Why would anyone prefer Ann Rutherford to Judy Garland? Anyone with eyes can see she's the star, not to mention anyone with ears. She dominates the film, but Andy ends up preferring someone else because Judy is "too young." It looks like they tacked on a line by Judge Stone that Judy's character must be "12 or 13" to explain the incredible turn of events. According to TCM, Judy was 16, Lana 17 and Ann 18 at the time. But Andy's character is supposed to be 15, "waiting to be 16." Remarkable how Judy has It here, the voice and the looks. I had thought that as she got older, her voice broke down as her acting improved, but here she matches anything the mature Judy did.