What's Up, Doc?

1972 • 93 minutes

About this movie

Peter Bogdonavich ("The Last Picture Show," "Paper Moon") directed this wonderful salute to the "screwball comedies" of the '40s and '50s. Superstar and Academy Award-winner Barbra Streisand ("The Prince of Tides," "Funny Girl") and Ryan O'Neal ("Irreconcilable Differences," "Love Story") star as an eccentric girl and an equally eccentric young professor who meet at a musicologist's convention and become involved in a zany chase up and down the hills of San Francisco to recover four identical flight bags containing jewels and secret government papers. This box office hit also features the film debut of comedienne Madeline Kahn ("Blazing Saddles," "Young Frankenstein").

Ratings and reviews

Awesome Screenplay. Comedic One Liners that will DEFINITELY LEAVE YOU LAUGHING OUT LOUD (due to the SET UP & timing of the actor's individuality with each role all acting in Concert makes the entire movie PRICELESS)! My Favorite Go To film that always makes MY DAY SO MUCH BETTER when I’m not in a good place.

Even though I know this movie almost by heart, it still makes me laugh so hard, I'm crying! I just LOVE Madeleine Kahn's uptight character!! Barbra is just so fabulous as the screwball, fast-talking, witty, comedienne! One of her best performances ever and she doesn't even SING in this movie! It is so reminiscent of Kathryn Hepburn's character in "Bringing Up Baby". Ryan O'neil plays the geeky, straight man so well, you almost forget what a heart throb he was at that time. It is so much fun to watch this film over & over again!!

Truly one of the best movies of all time! My family and I show it to everyone we know and we have yet to find someone who didn't like it. The only thing is you need to be fluent in the english language to understand all the jokes. No one knows about it but it's just incredible!