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1972
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. The film was very loosely based on the 1971 novel A Glimpse of Tiger by Herman Raucher—only a few character traits were used.
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The New Hollywood era, synonymous with gritty, style-driven dramas like *Taxi Driver* or *The Godfather*, was not typically associated with broad, crowd-pleasing comedies. Yet Peter Bogdanovich, one of the movement’s most eclectic directors, produced a film that defied these expectations. *What’s Up, Doc?*, released in 1972, stands as Bogdanovich’s most accessible and popular work, a riotous homage to the screwball…More
