Born Yesterday

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Born Yesterday

PG

1993

1h 41m

Romance

Comedy

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A scrap-metal tycoon (John Goodman) turned real-estate mogul pays a Washington newsman (Don Johnson) to educate his feisty girlfriend (Melanie Griffith).

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Not even Melanie Griffith's charisma can inject fresh energy into this ill-conceived remake, which awkwardly retreads through the classic original's story without any of its charm.

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Mick LaSalle

San Francisco Chronicle

01/11/2023

2/4

Reborn too late. Melanie Griffith is fine playing the beautiful-but-dumb (or is she?) role that Judy Holliday originated, but the film Is a dated vehicle.

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Leonard Klady

Variety

01/11/2008

The verdict on the makeover is not all good news.

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Jonathan Rosenbaum

Chicago Reader

01/11/2008

The gin rummy game with Griffith and Goodman instead of Holliday and Crawford is enough to ruin a night out.

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David Nusair

Reel Film Reviews

10/13/2022

2.5/4

...a briskly-paced comedy that benefits substantially from its winning performances...

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Mike Massie

Gone With The Twins

09/10/2020

5/10

Since the adherence to the source material is pretty close, there aren't many surprises.

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Rachel Wagner

rachelsreviews.net

02/21/2020

I watched the 1993 remake of Born Yesterday and boy was that a dud.

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Alain E

@AlainE Jul 10

Too silly for me. I may try the original if available on line.

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jordan m

09/14/2021

I really don't get what people expect when they learn that a movie is a remake of an older movie… this one used the things that worked in the 1950 version and made some small changes to improve the comedy and the chemistry between the newsman and Billie. Melanie didn't do radically worse than Holliday had done, even though it was indeed a step down. I enjoyed the changes they made to the screenplay, but I think more of the blame for this one's lack of success lies in the casting rather than the execution as it's very difficult to look at Goodman as a believable villain. If he was an excellent bad guy his name would be Badman, but it isn't and he was right in the middle of his star-making Roseanne show when he did this.

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01/01/2021

Great movie with great actors. I love it. It is terribly underrated.

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steve d

07/09/2020

Pointless but well done remake.

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10/25/2016

One of my all time favorite movies! I love the cast, especially Melanie Griffith and John Goodman!

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04/30/2016

nice bit of fun fluff

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Synopsis

A scrap-metal tycoon (John Goodman) turned real-estate mogul pays a Washington newsman (Don Johnson) to educate his feisty girlfriend (Melanie Griffith).

Director: Luis Mandoki
Producer: D. Constantine Conte
Screenwriter: Garson Kanin, Douglas McGrath
Distributor: Buena Vista Pictures
Production Co: Hollywood Pictures, Touchwood Pacific Partners 1
Rating: PG (Scene of Abusive Behavior|Language)
Genre: Romance, Comedy
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Mar 26, 1993, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Jul 1, 2014
Box Office (Gross USA): $17.8M
Runtime: 1h 41m
Sound Mix: Surround

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