It really is a pleasure to watch Katharine Hepburn work. Here, she's playing the living embodiment of the Internet, 35 years before the World Wide Web would bring it to the rest of us. She and Spencer Tracy work their legendary chemistry, and a lot of fun ensues.

I especially appreciate how often Hepburn's characters maintain their dignity even in the silliest of romantic-comedies, while still being funny and engaging. She's warm, smart, and human, and in this one, she manages to convincingly portray brilliance. Unlike in Adam's Rib, the resolution does not hinge upon her being proven wrong about anything consequential. The misunderstanding at the core of the film is mostly in the background, and when it finally comes to a head, it is dispatched of in moments. No one is shown for a fool except a computer, and that's oddly prescient of the film, really.

I wonder if this qualifies as science/speculative fiction.

My first thought was: Wow, looking up random shit before the internet was weird and complicated.

My second thought was: I can't believe there's a story centering around computers replacing human labor in 1957. Like, computers are so old!

My third thought was: Holy shit the office fashions are TOO FAB.

My fourth thought was: I could listen to Katharine Hepburn all day and also look at Katharine Hepburn all day.

My fifth thought was: omg this movie is super cute.

Essentially Adam's Rib crossed with that one scene from Willy Wonka with the computer. The follies of technology and humanity collide in this cute send-up of the battle of the sexes.

This movie's setting is a unique concept that I've really only seen followed up on in the delightful anime series BACCANO, and that was a background locale to the main action. An information bureau is a unique ideal that in the age of the internet just does not coalesce, which is a shame, because now the brain trusts are stuck behind desks not using that information or sharing it like Hepburn in this flick. D'oh well. We'll learn eventually, or not, I guess.

I enjoy watching Hepburn & Tracy play together, so at ease with each other, acting out their scenes so naturally. What I love here: the lunch on the rooftop, with Tracy quizzing Hepburn and testing her skills; the office Christmas party with Hepburn drinking too much champagne; Joan Blondell; the scene at Hepburn's apartment with both Hepburn and Tracy in bathrobes after being caught in the rain; and that big monster of a computer looking like something out of a scifi movie. 

#14 of 50 films in my Classic Christmas Challenge

Never assume. 

This is my first ever Katharine Hepburn movie.

This was a great movie! Hepburn and Tracy perform well together, the humor seems so natural between the two of them. The set is also amazing in this, I would give anything to work in a place like that. I just loved every minute of this tbh.

More affecting because it features stars who are well past their prime. The sort of thing that Nancy Meyers gets ridiculed for making these days.

61/100

Do TV networks still have librarians? Is this a job I can have please? This movie makes it so appealing. And, oddly enough, its commentary on technology and innovation is still pretty relevant.

Can we talk about how Katharine Hepburn and all the women serve look after magnificent look while also being the most incredible humans alive? Like, why do men even exist?
Also, this is my first Katharine Hepburn movie and I'm so excited to finally be coming out to you all.

I'd watch Katharine Hepburn in anything

i can't believe katharine hepburn is smarter than siri, alexa, cortana, AND the google assistant combined. wow.