Directed by:
Leo McCareyCinematography:
William C. MellorCast:
Victor Moore, Beulah Bondi, Fay Bainter, Thomas Mitchell, Porter Hall, Barbara Read, Maurice Moscovitch, Minna Gombell, Louise Beavers, Leo McCarey, Ellen Drew (more)VOD (1)
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Make Way for Tomorrow, by Leo McCarey, is one of the great unsung Hollywood masterpieces, an enormously moving Depression-era depiction of the frustrations of family, aging, and the generation gap. Beulah Bondi and Victor Moore headline a cast of incomparable character actors, starring as an elderly couple who must move in with their grown children after the bank takes their home, yet end up separated and subject to their offspring’s selfish whims. An inspiration for Yasujiro Ozu’s Tokyo Story, this is among American cinema’s purest tearjerkers, all the way to its unflinching ending, which McCarey refused to change despite studio pressure. (Criterion)
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A touching story about how people love each other and at the same time are repulsive and a hindrance to themselves. Two elderly spouses find themselves in a financial crisis, and their children are unable to take care of them. This is basically what the whole movie is about, and it ends with an incredibly emotional finale, which, however, doesn't impose anything on anyone, it simply describes how the old folks ended up.
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