Born Yesterday 1993

Critics score:
23 / 100

Reviews provided by RottenTomatoes

Vincent Canby, New York Times: There is a fatal disconnection between place and characters who, conceived in one era, are crazily transported into another in which they don't quite fit. Read more

Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader: The gin rummy game with Griffith and Goodman instead of Holliday and Crawford is enough to ruin a night out. Read more

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James Berardinelli, ReelViews: There's little (if anything) to recommend this movie. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: This is supposed to be snappy material, and it comes across gloomy. Read more

Wally Hammond, Time Out: Where Holliday was always too sophisticated a butterfly right from the off, Griffith's copycat performance starts dumb -- but then never takes wing. Read more

Leonard Klady, Variety: The verdict on the makeover is not all good news. Read more

Hal Hinson, Washington Post: In old Hollywood, style could make up for a lack of substance, but this remake is without either. Read more

Desson Thomson, Washington Post: There's no sense of screwball mayhem in the picture, no topsy-turvy brightness. Read more