Pat and Mike

Released Jun 13, 1952

1h 35m

Comedy

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85%

26 Reviews

Tomatometer

69%

2,500+ Ratings

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Pat Pemberton, a college athletics instructor, enters a number of golf matches against female professionals; she holds her own until her condescending fiancé, Collier Weld, turns up at the games and distracts her; sports manager Mike Conovan sees her talent and offers to train her; after realizing that Pat stops trying when Collier is around, Mike works to keep them apart, especially when he begins to develop feelings for her.

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Critics Consensus

Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy take competition to a romantic-comic highpoint in this elegantly directed sports comedy by George Cukor.

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Penelope Gilliatt

New Yorker

Ruth Gordon and Garson Kanin here wrote an engaging screenplay about emotion-without-display for their rare uncut diamonds.

Jan 14, 2013

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TIME Magazine

One of the season's gayest comedies.

Aug 4, 2008

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Variety Staff

Variety

Tracy is given some choice lines in the script and makes much of them in an easy, throwaway style that lifts the comedy punch.

Aug 4, 2008

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Sherwin Kane

Motion Picture Daily

It's a well-paced, light weight comedy with a facility for changing scene and mood that is thoroughly engaging throughout.

Jan 26, 2021

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Danielle Solzman

Solzy at the Movies

Pat and Mike may not be as memorable as their other pairings but the romantic sports comedy stands up on its own against their other films.

Jan 14, 2021

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Manny Farber

The Nation

Its chief trouble is that it is packed with such long-drawn- out scenes as golfers lining up for crucial putts and carefully tapping a ball that is predestined by the script either to drop in or not to.

Nov 24, 2020

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Audience Member

Certainly an intriguing concept-a Runyonesque story about a shady sports promoter who finds a female athlete and decides he can make her a big sports star and a moneymaker for himself, except that she only plays well when her domineering fiancée is not around. She turns out to be rebellious if either her fiancée or her promoter push her around too much. And there is good chemistry and interaction between the leads. Yet the movie has its faults too, namely being too long for what it is, with sports sequences that go one for longer than they need to, and the rather pointless inclusion of the boxer the promoter also has under his wing. Also, though the movie is presumably a comedy, it has few laughs in it. The movie tries, but it never quite satisfies in the end.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

02/22/23

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Anything combining Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy, Ruth Gordon and Garson Kanin, and George Cukor can't be anything less than wonderful. Although Adam's Rib is my favourite of the Hepburn & Tracy pairings, Pat and Mike is fizzing with the snappy banter and electric, yet easy chemistry of its stars. Although many classic romantic comedies can make a feminist cringe with their outdated ideas of the little woman, Pat and Mike, and especially the mould-breaking Hepburn, challenges some of that. Pat proudly wears trousers (watch your language in calling them pants, darling) and is an athletic star - mastering several sports at top levels with just natural ability. The triumph is when she trades in her domineering, traditional beau Collier (William Ching) for her gruff, but sentimental manager Mike. Tracy is wonderful in the role - I love his rough Bronx humour paired with the vulnerability of finding such a glorious woman in Hepburn. Their chemistry is legendary for a reason, their strong personalities would seemingly clash, but instead there is an ease and comfort of meeing their match - or as Mike would say "5-Oh, 5-Oh". Never has stretching after a workout been so sexy. It's a film in which you will find yourself grinning like a lovebird.

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

01/30/23

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steve d

Nothing new but the cast is a lot of fun.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

03/30/23

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Audience Member

Great Movie I'm Watching It Now/

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/02/23

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Audience Member

It's hard to deny the chemistry between Katherine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy, but this film really lacks the weight of some of their others.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

02/27/23

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Audience Member

Smartly written and fueled by the undeniable chemistry of Hepburn and Tracy.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

02/22/23

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George Cukor

Director

Spencer Tracy

Mike Conovan

Katharine Hepburn

Patricia 'Pat' Pemberton

Aldo Ray

Davie Hucko

William Ching

Collier Weld

Jim Backus

Charles Barry

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Synopsis

Pat Pemberton, a college athletics instructor, enters a number of golf matches against female professionals; she holds her own until her condescending fiancé, Collier Weld, turns up at the games and distracts her; sports manager Mike Conovan sees her talent and offers to train her; after realizing that Pat stops trying when Collier is around, Mike works to keep them apart, especially when he begins to develop feelings for her.

Director: George Cukor
Screenwriter: Ruth Gordon, Garson Kanin
Distributor: MGM/UA Home Entertainment Inc., Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Warner Home Vídeo
Production Co: Loew's Inc., Metro Goldwyn Mayer
Genre: Comedy
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Jun 13, 1952, Original
Release Date (Streaming): Sep 1, 2009
Runtime: 1h 35m

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