What's Up, Doc?
What's Up, Doc? is a 1972 American screwball comedy film directed by Peter Bogdanovich, and starring Barbra Streisand and Ryan O'Neal. It was intended to pay homage to comedy films of the 1920s, '30s, and '40s, especially Bringing Up Baby and Warner Bros. Bugs Bunny cartoons.
Plot
Dr. Howard Bannister, a musicologist from the Iowa Conservatory of Music in Ames, Iowa, has travelled to San Francisco to compete for a research grant offered by Frederick Larrabee. Howard is accompanied by his tightly wound, overbearing fiancée Eunice Burns. As the two check into the Hotel Bristol, Howard runs into the charming trouble-magnet Judy Maxwell in the hotel's drugstore. She never finished college, but nevertheless has amassed a considerable amount of knowledge from all of the academic institutions from which she was expelled. She begins to pursue Howard and lodges herself in the hotel without paying.
More details
| author | Buck Henry David Newman Peter Bogdanovich Robert Benton |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | San Francisco |
| director | Peter Bogdanovich |
| editor | Verna Fields |
| genre | comedy |
| keywords | clothe croatia even expel government agent hotel employee hotel room igneous jewel thieves land lombard street looney tunes love means never having to say you\'re sorry love story masquerade nervous breakdown reward rock san francisco bay their way victorian victorian architecture volkswagen beetle wedding party |
| musicBy | Artie Butler |
| producer | Peter Bogdanovich |
| productionCompany | Saticoy Productions |
| publisher | Warner Bros. |
| recordedAt | San Francisco |
| theme | cartoon comedy of remarriage romantic comedy screwball comedy slapstick |