The Big Hangover

The Big Hangover (1950)

  • 60% of critics liked it
    (5 reviews)

  • 9% want to see it
    (61 ratings)

Nobody sits on the fence so far as The Big Hangover is concerned. Leonard Maltin considers it "predictable, as well as silly and boring," while the late William K. Everson regarded it as one of Hollywood's best and most underappreciated screwball comedies. Examine the premise and judge… More

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Comedy, Romance
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  • , TIME Magazine

    The result makes an odd layer cake composed of alternate slabs of slapstick and preachment, none of it very digestible.

  • Variety Staff, Variety

    Elizabeth Taylor is warm and appealing as the amateur psychiatrist. Van Johnson, too, is rather subdued and serious here, to just as warming effect.

  • , New York Times

    The Big Hangover, although it runs an uneven course; still is good for some laughs and is deserving of attention.

  • , TV Guide's Movie Guide

    [An] odd film about a man who gets dizzy at the mere sniff of any alcohol.

  • Dennis Schwartz, Ozus' World Movie Reviews

    The cast is so endearing that they do wonders with the silly premise.

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