Pat and Mike | 
 enlarge | Director: George Cukor
Actors: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Aldo Ray, William Ching, Sammy White
Studio: Warner Home Video
Category: DVD
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Rating:  16 reviews
Sales Rank: 16797
Format: Black & White, Dvd-video, Full Screen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 95
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Picture Format: Pan & Scan
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: D65164D
ISBN: 0790745984
UPC: 012569516427
EAN: 9780790745985
ASIN: B00004TX2B
Theatrical Release Date: June 13, 1952
Release Date: September 19, 2000
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Kate plays Pat Pemberton, a college physical education teacher who excels at just about every sport there is. She's also a great athletic competitor, except when her overbearing, worrywart fiance, Collier Weld, is around. (As Weld, William Ching does an admirable job in a thankless role.) All Pat has to do is see Collier's face on the sidelines and her golf swing loses its power; her tennis game goes haywire. It takes crooked sports manager Mike Conovan (Spencer Tracy, of course) to recognize Pat's outstanding talent. He takes her on as his most important client and handles her with the same loving care that he gives to his favorite racehorse. Naturally, Pat and Mike's relationship is destined to overstep its professional boundaries. The mutual attraction grows from the moment they meet. Watching Pat walk away, Mike comments to his partner, "Not much meat on her, but what's there is 'cherce'." The film carries a powerful feminist message, especially considering that it was made in the early 1950s: Pat is undone by Collier, who would rather have her stick to being "the little woman" and forget about succeeding. But with Mike in her corner, Pat can have a great career. Her union with him is a true partnership; everything is, as he says, "Five-oh, five-oh." In the end, he's secure enough to be comfortable as "the man behind the woman." The film features terrific comic performances by Aldo Ray as a bone-headed boxer, a young Charles Bronson (before he changed his name from Buchinski) as a small-time gangster, and Our Gang's Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer as a high-strung bus boy. --Laura Mirsky
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Nice Tracy and Hepburn Film July 7, 2008
This is a disarming little movie about a woman athlete and her coach. It is a somewhat romantic comedy but it is more about developing a female athlete and coaching her to be a winner. Katherine Hepburn was apparently a terrific athlete and Garson and Kanin wrote their screenplay around her. It is not a raccuous or exaggerated romantic comedy like Adam's Rib or even Woman of the Year. It is much smaller but very charming. Take it for what it is and don't expect it to be like the other films. This is not what Pat and Mike are about.
 Tracy and Hepburn strike again....... August 22, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
PAT & MIKE is an inspiring look at the relationship between a gifted athlete (Katherine Hepburn) and her coach (Spencer Tracy), determined to get her back on her game. Pat's fiancee, Collier Weld (William Ching) is the one setback that keeps her from really excelling at the sports she pursues. Everytime she sees him in the crowd, she fails miserably at anything she is attempting to do (be it serve a tennis ball, or shoot a golfball). I am sure you can imagine the twist of fate that occurs while under the tuttelage of Mike, who believes that they have a truly equal partnership, in his words, "5-0, 5-0."
Spencer Tracy and Katherine Hepburn's chemistry is going strong, as they trade clever banter and we watch the evolution of a beautiful relationship. This film is especially progressive for the time that it was released (the 1950s).
for Stevie May 12, 2007
Bought this for my daughter for a course she was taking at UF called Women in Films. It arrived very promptly at her address.
An inspirational film at a time when one was needed! December 22, 2006
This is a fun film for sports fans. It is only unfortunate that it is so sickenly anti-feminist until the very end. People act as if a woman had no business being an athlete, as if she had no business being a person of any influence at all. I didn't live through the fifties, and if this is accurate, I am appalled. It does get to be a good movie at the end though when Katharine starts kicking some butt!
Very Enjoyable August 25, 2006
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This was just recently on the Golf Channel which prompted me to buy it. It's an enjoyable piece of fluff, and I wouldn't call Hepburn's athlectic skills great, but maybe in those days it was considered good form. The movie is fun to watch though. I have one warning. When William Ching's character tosses his coat to a black porter and say's Here you go, boy', it's cringworthy. But the movie was made in the 50's and that has to be taken into accont.
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