Adam's Rib (1949)
Directed by George Cukor
A woman's attempted murder of her uncaring husband results in everyday quarrels in the lives of Adam and Amanda, a pair of happily married lawyers who end up on opposite sides of the case in court.
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What critics compared Adam's Rib to
The best romantic movies aren't these dreamy tales of lovers destined for happiness; they're the movies--Gone With the Wind, His Girl Friday and Adam's Rib come to mind--that dramatize exactly why two characters are perfectly matched.
Unlike say, Dave, which wove a well-chosen cast into a nicely topical scenario to produce a Capra-esque comedy of populist ideology, this relegates the fertile ground of American politics to mere backdrop for a misconceived Adam's Rib-style screwball romance.
There's also passionate debate, wicked wit, desperate improvisation, caffeine-fueled energy, demented commitment to the cause, and unrelieved lack of sleep all the colorfully unglamorous elements of campaign life that make the setting such a natural for the kind of grown-up, sexy, sparring he-and-she-both-have-brains movies that Hollywood has claimed to want to re-create ever since Hepburn and Tracy snapped at each other as husband-and-wife opposing counsel in Adam's Rib.