Born Yesterday

Born Yesterday (1993)

  • 23% of critics liked it
    (22 reviews)

  • 28% of users liked it
    (5,917 ratings)

This 1993 remake of the 1950 film Born Yesterday (based on the 1946 Garson Kanin stage play) was retooled as a star vehicle for then-marrieds Melanie Griffith and Don Johnson. Roughneck self-made millionaire Harry Brock (John Goodman) wants to become a powerful Washington lobbyist. Brock's… More

PG,
Directed By
Genres
Comedy, Romance
In Theaters
Mar 26, 1993 Wide

Critic Reviews

  • Leonard Klady, Variety

    The verdict on the makeover is not all good news.

  • Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader

    The gin rummy game with Griffith and Goodman instead of Holliday and Crawford is enough to ruin a night out.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Peter Travers, Rolling Stone

    To the growing list of unnecessary movies, add this remake of the Garson Kanin comedy.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • xGary X


    A 90s rom com starring Melanie Griffith and Don Johnson that's basically a cheap knock off of Pygmalion with a shabby blackmail plot tacked on. As good as it sounds.

  • Sunil J


    Melanie Griffith is a total charmer in this but everyone else is just okay.

  • Leo L


    Great!

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