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The Wonderful Pulitzer Prize Play … becomes one of the Great Motion Pictures of our Time!
The Wonderful Pulitzer Prize Play … becomes one of the Great Motion P...
Comedy, Fantasy - 1950
7.9
86%
N/A
The story of Elwood P. Dowd who makes friends with a spirit taking the form of a human-sized rabbit named Harvey that only he sees (and a few privileged others on occasion also.) After his sister tries to commit him to a mental institution, a comedy of errors ensues. Elwood and Harvey become the catalysts for a family mending its wounds and for romance blossoming in unexpected places.
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Rated:
Approved
Runtime:
104 min
Release date:
4 Dec 1950
Country:
US
Languages:
English
Budget:
$0
Revenue:
$0
Awards:
Won 1 Oscar. 2 wins & 4 nominations total

Top Critics Reviews

rotten:
Unhappily, what the film also borrows from the play, and somehow makes more conspicuous, is a tendency to drag its feet for long stretches, especially during the virtually actionless last third of the story.
– ,
TIME Magazine,
29 Mar 2011
rotten:
Charming, lightweight stuff (from a play by Mary Chase), so long as you can take Stewart's ingenuousness, but it does wear thin.
– Derek Adams,
Time Out,
9 Feb 2006
fresh:
If you're for warm and gentle whimsey, for a charmingly fanciful farce and for a little touch of pathos anent the fateful evanescence of man's dreams, then the movie version of Harvey is definitely for you.
– Bosley Crowther,
New York Times,
25 Mar 2006
fresh:
Harvey, Mary Chase's Pulitzer Prize play, loses little of its whimsical comedy charm in the screen translation.
– Variety Staff,
Variety,
26 Mar 2009
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