Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | Release Date: June 16, 1950 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Generally favorable reviews based on 9 Critic Reviews
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One of the finest, funniest and most civilized of all Hollywood domestic comedies. [01 Sep 2006, p.C5]
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Los Angeles TimesMark Chalon Smith
What gives this slender movie its appeal is how Minnelli and writers Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett check out all the huge and tiny steps in the complicated process with such gleeful, and usually wry, detail. [23 Jul 1992, p.13]
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Within its own terms the picture is sensitive and very well done, but it's also tiresomely fraudulent -- an idealization of a safe, shuttered existence, the good life according to M-G-M.