Film

Singin' in the Rain 1952

Directed by Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly

  • Comedy, Romance
  • 103 min
  • G

What a Glorious Feeling!

In 1927 Hollywood, a silent film star falls for a chorus girl just as he and his paranoid screen partner struggle to make the difficult transition to talking pictures.

ComedyRomancefanmusicalpartnerfilm in filmhollywoodbroadwaydancing in the streetaudiencechorus girldiction coachflappersilent film star

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Nostalgic, warm, resolved and meticulous.

  • contemporarynostalgic
  • warmbleak
  • resolvedopen-ended
  • rawmeticulous
  • classical in formformally daring

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47 profiled raters. Loved most by The Comfort Seekers; disliked most by The Ironists.

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