Film194092 min

His Girl Friday

Name: His Girl Friday
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Released: 1940
Duration: 92 min
Cast: Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell, Ralph Bellamy, Gene Lockhart, Helen Mack

Taste attributes: comedydramaromancejournalisticslowrealisticlinearenclosedemotive & stirringall consuming questcomplex relationshiplove conquers allrescue/escape/jeopardyunderdog triumphs

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"She learned about men from him!"

Boxlist takeMoving and intimate: a grounded romantic comedy. Best if you like stories that hit hard.

Pace: balanced · Originality: balanced · Tone: balanced · Weight: balanced · Realism: true to life · Story: balanced · Structure: very linear · Look: balanced · Scale: very confined · Emotional punch: very stirringHow we score

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Pace: Slow, just how this profile likes it
Emotional punch: Emotive / stirring, just how this profile likes it
Wholesomeness: Balanced wholesomeness, just how this profile likes it

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Weightiness: Light / accessible, where this profile leans weighty / heavy

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Synopsis

Hildy, the journalist former wife of newspaper editor Walter Burns, visits his office to inform him that she's engaged and will be getting remarried the next day. Walter can't let that happen and frames the fiancé, Bruce Baldwin, for one thing after another, to keep him temporarily held in prison, while trying to steer Hildy into returning to her old job as his employee.

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