"A minor miracle of American neorealism built around very unlikely Honeymooners material...(a) human comedy that included truly horrifying sequences on bluecollar drudge work and the loss of an only child..." (Sarris and Allen, Village Voice). "Between 1949 and 1954, George Cukor directed five couple films written by Garson Kanin and Ruth Gordon: Adam's Rib, Born Yesterday, The Marrying Kind, Pat and Mike and It Should Happen to You. Although The Marrying Kind is the least shown and least talked about, it is by far the tenderest, saddest and most deeply felt of these comedies. Every film Cukor ever made was on the theme of discovering and uniting with who you are. (Really, what more could you ask for? Especially when this is accomplished with a visual grace and selfless clarity.) He used the couple film as did Leo McCarey (in Love Affair, The Awful Truth) and Rossellini (in the Bergman films), to explore the basic human tension between self and other, ego and desire-with the additional undertow of economic survival. Here, as in his other films, characters who at first may seem blatantly theatrical take on unexpected dimensions and overwhelm our hearts." Nathaniel Dorsky