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Bringing Up Baby
MEANRANK
82/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #433
- IMDb #605
- Rotten Tomatoes #257
- Metacritic #360
- Letterboxd #587
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #205
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- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #673
- Metacritic Critics #162
- Metacritic Audience #1456
- Criticker #396
- Kinopoisk #1162
- AlloCiné #1239
- Trakt #1120
Every rating
Split
Lowest is Criticker on 66, highest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 97. Critics average 94, everyone else 79.
See the most agreed on films →A paleontologist on the verge of both a marriage of convenience and securing a crucial museum donation has his life turned upside down by a flighty, eccentric heiress. She involves him in a series of increasingly chaotic misadventures centered around her pet leopard, Baby. His meticulously ordered world completely unravels as he loses the bone he needs, gets arrested, and finds himself chasing the leopard across the Connecticut countryside.
Details
- Director
- Howard Hawks
- Writers
- Dudley Nichols, Hagar Wilde, Howard Hawks
- Studio
- RKO Radio Pictures
- Released
- 18 February 1938
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 102 min
- Rated
- NR
- Budget
- $1.1M
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Awards
5 wins total
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