Bringing Up Baby (1938) poster
1938 · comedy · romance

Bringing Up Baby

Directed by Howard Hawks1h 42m1938
ElsewhereIMDb7.869kRT97%Metacritic91TMDB7.51k
  • cosy
  • kinetic
  • gentle
  • redemptive
  • tender
  • intimate
Movie DNA

Cosy, breathless, gentle comedy / romance, grounded in texture. Redemptive, intimate, tender, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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David Huxley is waiting to get a bone he needs for his museum collection. Through a series of strange circumstances, he meets Susan Vance, and the duo have a series of misadventures which include a leopard called Baby.

Our read · Bringing Up Baby (1938) reads as a cosy, breathless, grounded comedy · romance entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

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You want dizzy screwball chemistry and leopard chaos without a hint of heaviness.

ends triumphantyou’ll feel glowing aftergrabs you earlygrips from the openattention 3/5breezes by
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around

Skip it tonightYou cannot stand manic dated slapstick or need a plot that makes logical sense.

DNA · twelve axes

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Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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