1972 · comedy · screwball
What's Up, Doc?
Directed by Peter Bogdanovich1h 34m1972
The accidental mix-up of four identical plaid overnight bags leads to a series of increasingly wild and wacky situations.
Our read: What's Up, Doc? (1972) reads as a cosy, breathless, grounded comedy · screwball entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Cosy, breathless, gentle comedy / screwball, grounded in texture. Redemptive, intimate, tender.
- cosy
- kinetic
- redemptive
- intimate
- funny
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