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The Philadelphia Story (1940): Scores Across IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB

The Philadelphia Story is a 1940 comedy, romance film directed by George Cukor. It scores 7.8 on IMDb, 100% on Rotten Tomatoes, 96 on Metacritic, 7.5 on TMDB. Audiences and critics disagree: scaled to 100, IMDb users give it 78 while Metacritic critics give it 96, a gap of 18 points in favor of critics. Ranked by confidence-weighted IMDb score, it is number 5 of 71 films from 1940 in our catalog and number 89 of 3,051 comedy films.

Billed cast: Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, James Stewart, Ruth Hussey, John Howard, Roland Young.

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