Adam's Rib (1949)
Adam's Rib : Summary and initial thoughts Oh, I always enjoy this movie. A classic Hepburn/Tracy collaboration, this film is smart, sexy, and forward-thinking. But does it actually answer the battle of the sexes? Well... The film follows married couple Adam and Amanda Bonner, respectively an assistant DA and a defense attorney. Their life together is presumably reasonably equitable and peaceful...that is until Adam is assigned to a case prosecuting a woman, Doris, who, enraged by her husband's affair, tracks down him and his paramour and begins chaotically shooting around the room in every direction, ultimately wounding her husband in the shoulder. Amanda, who feels there is a double standard for women when it comes to adultery (true), sees her husband's involvement in the prosecution as on opportunity. She finds Doris and offers her services for the defense, hoping to both help the accused woman and prove a higher point: that men and women, despite being naturally equal,...