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Leaving July 31
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1h 43m
Directed by Walter Lang • 1957 • United States
Starring Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Joan Blondell
It’s human ingenuity vs. artificial intelligence in this witty and prescient comic marvel, one of the most delightful of the celebrated pairings between screen icons Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy. Bunny Watson (Hepburn) is the brainiac research specialist at a television network whose job—to gather obscure facts on all variety of topics—is threatened when computer specialist Richard Sumner (Tracy) is hired to replace her department with a giant “electronic brain” that can (supposedly) outperform her and her coworkers. Though she frets over the automation of her job, Bunny finds herself drawn to Richard, while setting out to prove that the human brain has not been totally supplanted yet.
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