Make Way For Tomorrow (Blu-ray)

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Make Way For Tomorrow (Blu-ray)
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  • Rated: Not Rated
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 32 minutes
  • Video: Black & White
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: May 12, 2015
  • Originally Released: 2015
  • Label: Criterion Collection

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User Ratings: 886
Rating: 4/4 -- It's easy to imagine it being sentimentalized by a studio executive, being made more upbeat for the audience. That's not McCarey. Full Review
Chicago Sun-Times
Oct 17, 2018
Rating: 10/10 -- The final third is an absolute miracle - one of the greatest sequences in 1930s American cinema. Full Review
Antagony & Ecstasy
Mar 18, 2012
Let's just say that, in calling Make Way for Tomorrow a masterpiece, we'll also call it a dear movie, a wonderful movie, a refreshing movie, or an honest movie. Maybe those terms will make it a bit more appealing. Full Review
Combustible Celluloid
Feb 26, 2010
Rating: 10/10 -- The most convincing love story ever put on screen. Full Review
Movie Metropolis
May 2, 2010
[A] marvel of Hollywood classicism, sweeping the audience swiftly and smoothly toward a devastating finish. -- Grade: A-
A.V. Club
Mar 3, 2010
In no other film has McCarey's improvisational brilliance been better sustained.
Film Comment
Mar 1, 2010
5 stars out of 5 -- [The film] plays as the TOKYO STORY no-one's seen, dripping pathos and poignancy from every pore.
Total Film
Jan 1, 2011

Product Description:

While not a box-office success, this drama, directed by Leo McCarey, developed a potent reputation among film critics and movie buffs for its sensitive and perceptive treatment of the problems of the elderly. When McCarey won the Oscar for Best Director the same year for THE AWFUL TRUTH, he remarked that the Academy gave him the award for the wrong movie. Barkley and Lucy Cooper (Victor Moore and Beulah Bondi) are a couple in their late 60s who have fallen on hard times and have been given the bad news that the bank is foreclosing on their house. Barkley and Lucy turn to their five children for help, but none are willing or able to do much for them; their son George (Thomas Mitchell) says that Lucy can stay with him and his wife Anita (Fay Bainter), while Nellie (Minna Gombell) and her husband Harvey (Porter Hall) can take in Barkley, but neither couple have the space or the means to house them both. Living with their children and their new families proves stressful for everyone involved, and Lucy decides to take up residence in a home for older women. She and Barkley realize that this will probably mean a permanent separation for the two of them, and they try to enjoy one last outing together before they part. Remarkably, Beulah Bondi was only 46 years old when this film was made, making her less then ten years older than several of her on-screen children; make-up wizard Wally Westmore used his bag of tricks to age her the appropriate two decades for the role.

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  • UPC: 715515147019
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