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Make Way for Tomorrow
An elderly couple are forced to separate when they lose their house and none of their five children will take both parents in.
June 21, 1893 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
28 May 1892, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
January 6, 1894 in Millville, New Jersey, USA
28 October 1872, Englewood, Illinois, USA
July 5, 1883 in St Thomas, Ontario, Canada
3 May 1889, Chicago, Illinois, USA
July 20, 1885 in Wakefield, Massachusetts, USA
29 December 1917, Port Arthur, Ontario, Canada
August 2, 1880 in Nagyvárad, Austria-Hungary [now Oradea, Romania]
24 April 1901, Lexington, Nebraska, USA
3 October 1896, Los Angeles, California, USA
29 May 1904, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
May 16, 1883 in Hertfordshire, England, UK
December 13, 1895 in Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
29 March 1908, Fort Madison, Iowa, USA
23 November 1871, Odessa, Kherson Governorate, Russian Empire [now Ukraine]
October 3, 1902 in Harmony, Pennsylvania, USA
27 August 1899, Ogden, Utah, USA
June 24, 1903 in New York, New York, USA
7 December 1902, Chicago, Illinois, USA
18 July 1894, New York, USA
September 21, 1903 in Naples, Campania, Italy
22 April 1904, Maryland, USA
11 January 1877, Sydney, Australia
December 5, 1892 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA
24 February 1876, Hammonton, New Jersey, USA
7 December 1893, Los Angeles, California, USA
26 April 1887, London, England, UK
December 11, 1883 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
6 July 1885, New York City, New York, USA
February 23, 2010
[Leo] McCarey's most personal picture and his most moving drama, the rare Hollywood film to confront issues of aging head on.
May 13, 2015
Many scenes in Make Way For Tomorrow are very uncomfortable to sit through ... What prevents the movie from being totally unendurable is the tenderness in the lead performances.
February 26, 2010
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.
July 28, 2009
An Ozu-like tear-jerker family drama.
February 24, 2010
Make Way eulogizes humanity so well that it's as painful as it is beautiful.
May 14, 2015
As brutal in its own way as any gangster or slasher flick, Make Way for Tomorrow is a powerful drama that absolutely refuses to pull its punches or take any prisoners.
March 17, 2012
The final third is an absolute miracle - one of the greatest sequences in 1930s American cinema.
February 23, 2010
one of the saddest, much touching, and most powerfully introspective films produced during the classical era of Hollywood cinema
July 13, 2004
Age and wisdom exit the stage, leaving youthful oblivion.
March 09, 2010
All of this leads to an ending that is not just the most moving thing McCarey ever fashioned, but may just be the moving thing anyone ever committed to film.
March 21, 2007
Hollywood melodramas do not often compare to timeless masterpieces of world cinema, but this does, largely through McCarey's sophisticated blend of tragic pathos, psychological insight, and rich, knowing humor.
May 01, 2010
The most convincing love story ever put on screen.
