BroadcastChic Excellent, a Must See

Melanie Bouvet The movie's not perfect, but it sticks the landing of its message. It was engaging - thrilling at times - and I personally thought it was a great time.

Brennan Camacho Mostly, the movie is committed to the value of a good time.

Married Baby Just intense enough to provide a much-needed diversion, just lightweight enough to make you forget about it soon after it’s over. It’s not exactly “good,” per se, but it does what it sets out to do in terms of putting us on edge, which makes it … successful?

pdeprima I watched this movie yesterday for the second time and cried . What a great old movie. I told 2 people about and cried while I was telling them the story. Too bad they don't make more movies like this. My mother used to say a mother can take care of 10 children but when it comes time for one of them to take care of them no one will.

Dunham16 before blue collar workers had health insurance, retirement benefits or social security. The story seems so realistic many of us raised in these families consider it recognizable within our own lives although the paid performers are acting out a theater piece. Mom and dad, Beulah Bondi and Victor Moore, are evicted from their lifetime home as septuagenarians to come to grips with no place to live as a loving couple and not comfortable separating. Daughter in law Fay Bainter takes in mom to then be disappointed when her own family's tenuous lifestyle is interrupted to the point her family could years down the road end up like her in laws and reacts badly.She palms off mom on a granddaughter far away and likely to forever be separated from dad. Another daughter in law afraid her tenuous family setup will downgrade her family's chances of staying together in old age She physically abuses dad by breaking his eyeglasses so he cannot read mom's letters then running dad barefoot up and down stairs until the septuagenarian becomes ill She then trying to convince a physician to certify him as not able to live in the community. Dad is committed to a nursing home. Mom and dad realize these separations will break them apart forever and be heartrending yet can be tolerated if they snub and insult their children and in laws on their last day to disappear for a proper, loving goodbye before losing each other without grumbling. More heartrending should you have lived in a family going through this in this era of the past.

rosyrnrn-470-753438 How it ever escaped my watching it before tonight, I'll never know. But I couldn't stop watching it, not even pause it for any reason. It's that GOOD. The only part of the whole movie that I felt disappointed with was the ending. I thought, "They are NOT going to end it like that!!!" But they did! You may think that these kinds of relationships, conversations, and treatment don't really happen all too often, but nowadays, it's more like the norm. What surprised me was realizing how pervasive this attitude has gone throughout the generations. And that made me cry, too. We are going through similar. I thought about recording it and sending a copy to each adult kid. That would only make it worse. Great movie!!!!

evanston_dad "Make Way for Tomorrow," Leo McCarey's quiet tragedy about an elderly couple who are left with few choices when their adult children are reluctant to take care of them, is one of those films that grows in stature the more you think about it.On one hand, it's a bit heavy handed and simplistic in the way 1930s films frequently were and which makes them seem dated now -- the parents are a bit too saintly, the children a bit too awful. As a study of characters, the film would have been more interesting if it had provided some insight into why the children turned out the way they did and what role the parents played in shaping them into the selfish adults they become. The children would have been more interesting if they had been portrayed more humanely; Thomas Mitchell, as the oldest son, is the only one who comes across as something other than a selfish horror.But the film is more interested in examining a social topic than it is in exploring characters, and in that way it feels ahead of its time, even if its sophistication doesn't fully sink in until after you've had some time to think about the movie. For a 1937 film, it's extremely unsentimental when it might have been downright maudlin. The parents move about with a resigned air, and the film doesn't pander for sympathy. As one of the extra features on the DVD points out, audiences aren't interested in movies about old people even now, let alone then. And we haven't gotten much better at the way we view and treat the elderly in the 70+ years since "Make Way for Tomorrow" debuted. One of the things I liked best about the movie -- and that makes it still incredibly relevant -- is that it shows how dismissive younger generations are about older people, and how children seem to think their parents don't have lives outside of them. As portrayed brilliantly by Beulah Bondi and Victor Moore in the film, these two doddery folk have a rich history together; they had a life before children and they have a life after; they have things to teach, wisdom to impart, and they're very sharp and astute about what's going on around them. One of the biggest tragedies in the film is something that goes almost unspoken, and that's the disappointment they feel in their children but won't let their children see.The final sequence of the movie is downright magical, when Bondi and Moore blow off their children to revisit the haunts of their honeymoon. It's funny, sad and almost unbearably poignant without being schmaltzy, thanks partly to the low-key direction of Leo McCarey but mostly to the wonderful performances of the two actors.A lovely film.Grade: A