Intelligent comedy masterfully directed by George Cukor, the protagonist, Tracy Samantha Lord, belonging to a rich family of high ancestry played by Katherine Hepburn role that seems to fit her own personality and is part of an environment to which she belongs in her real life and is used to living.
Tracy, is that goddess on a pedestal, as defined by the other protagonist her ex-husband Dexter Haven, played by Cary Grant, calls her intransigent with the weaknesses of others and too demanding with herself to the point of not allowing herself to love without judging, without reproaching, without calibrating or measuring the weaknesses of others, in this case those of her ex-husband who was fond of drinking during their marriage, those of her father affected by the scandal of an affair with a dancer, that of her mother, a woman who loves her husband and understands his weaknesses and that she does not feel betrayed, when he returns to her, the love she feels for him triumphs over pride or reproach, there are always values that are above anything and love is without a doubt the biggest of them, all of which our protagonist is not allowed to feel and less to show.
Tracy intends to remarry a man who embodies the values that she admires, self-made, hard-working, fighter and who has not enjoyed the privileges of the upper social class to which Tracy belongs and who is enthusiastic about the idea of getting married. with her and being able to be a member of this class, a character who lacks authenticity and who deep down, although he pretends to appear, feels a certain disdain and contempt for the privileges that this class enjoys without having to fight for them
Everything seems to turn upside down when they show up the day before their wedding, her ex-husband accompanied by two supposed friends, a photographer and a journalist Macaulay Connor, who is played by actor James Stewart and with whom the protagonist will show herself to be vulnerable, emerging that woman who wants to be loved and not adored, loved and not idolized and with her feelings on the surface, her deepest desires to love and show herself as she is will appear, a woman with her flaws and imperfections and there will be no turning back.
