What's Up, Doc?

1972
G
1h 34m

IMDb RATING

7.7/10

28K

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Barbra Streisand and Ryan O'Neal in What's Up, Doc? (1972)

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Screwball Comedy Slapstick Comedy Romance

The accidental mix-up of four identical plaid overnight bags leads to a series of increasingly wild and wacky situations.The accidental mix-up of four identical plaid overnight bags leads to a series of increasingly wild and wacky situations.The accidental mix-up of four identical plaid overnight bags leads to a series of increasingly wild and wacky situations.

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IMDb RATING

7.7/10

28K

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 1 win & 1 nomination

Trivia
The fender bender Judy causes as she crosses the street to the Bristol Hotel was added on the spur of the moment. When no stunt cars were available, Peter Bogdanovich instructed a crew member to rent two cars and make sure he got collision insurance. Then he staged the wreck before returning the battered cars.

Goofs
Throughout the film Howard strikes several rocks with tuning forks, and then listens to the tuning fork as if he's expecting a different tone when he hits different rocks. Tuning forks are made to resonate at a fixed pitch, so no matter what object is struck with the fork, it will always sound the same.

Quotes
Judy: Love means never having to say you're sorry.
Howard: That's the dumbest thing I ever heard.

Crazy credits
The opening and closing credits are shown printed in a large book whose pages are turned by a woman's expressive hand. The opening credits conclude with the last page showing a drawing of a plaid overnight bag with the prologue: "Once upon a time, there was a plaid overnight case..." The drawing dissolves into the opening scene of the same overnight case in an airport baggage claim shelf.

Connections
Edited into The Clock (2010)

Soundtracks
You're the Top
by Cole Porter
Performed by Barbra Streisand (uncredited) and Ryan O'Neal (uncredited)

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Featured review

8/10

I liked Babs better when she didn't take herself so seriously...

... and this is definitely one of those films. The movie opens with a fantastic rendition of Cole Porter's "You're the Top" sung by Barbra Streisand and then proceeds to tell the story of four identical plaid overnight bags that get mixed up: one bag contains rocks belonging to professor Ryan O'Neal (the "doc" of the title), one bag contains Barbra Streisand's clothes and underwear, one bag contains top secret documents and one bag contains a wealthy woman's jewels. Instrumental versions of various Cole Porter songs are heard throughout the movie.

Barbra looks beautiful and sings "As Time Goes By" about halfway through the movie. At one point she's hanging from a hotel ledge wearing only a towel! Madeline Kahn is hilarious as Ryan's O'Neal's fiancé. The movie seems to be an homage to screwball comedies from the 1930s and the actors do a good job with the fast-paced dialogue.

The car chase through San Francisco near the end of the movie is a lot of fun . There's a pane of glass that some men are trying to cross the street with that you just know is going to get broken as all the cars go by, but what actually causes it to break was quite unexpected.