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Bringing Up Baby (1938): Scores Across IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB
Bringing Up Baby is a 1938 comedy, romance film directed by Howard Hawks. It scores 7.8 on IMDb, 97% on Rotten Tomatoes, 91 on Metacritic, 7.5 on TMDB. Audiences and critics disagree: scaled to 100, IMDb users give it 78 while Metacritic critics give it 91, a gap of 13 points in favor of critics. Ranked by confidence-weighted IMDb score, it is number 2 of 78 films from 1938 in our catalog and number 87 of 3,051 comedy films.
Billed cast: Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Charles Ruggles, Walter Catlett, Barry Fitzgerald, May Robson.
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