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Make Way for Tomorrow

Make Way for Tomorrow

1937, Movie, 1h 32min

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.

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What's so powerful about the film is its level gaze. It calmly, almostdispassionately, regards the situation and how it plays out. No spin.

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Some movies that have similar genres and were produced around the same time as Make Way for Tomorrow include Casablanca, Waterloo Bridge, A Tale of Two Cities, The Shop Around the Corner, Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, L’Atalante.

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Make Way for Tomorrow was released in theaters on May 9, 1937.