Imitation of Life [Import] R
Fannie Hurst's best selling novel of today's tormented generation!
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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 2 hours, 5 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: April 10, 2007
- Originally Released: 1959
- Label: Castaways
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Lana Turner, John Gavin & Sandra Dee | |
Performer: | Dan O'Herlihy, Troy Donahue, Susan Kohner, Juanita Moore & Robert Alda | |
Directed by | Douglas Sirk | |
Original story by | Fannie Hurst | |
Produced by | Ross Hunter |
Entertainment Reviews:
While this device lends more scope, it also results in the overdone busy actress/neglected daughter conflict.
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Variety
Rating: 3/5 --
Glossy soaper ahead of its racially themed time.
Video-Reviewmaster.com
Rating: 4/4 --
You'll be horrified at how this hokum manipulates you, but the best strategy is to just surrender and enjoy it.
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TV Guide
Imitation of Life is still a potent onion. When passed before the moviegoer's eyes, it may force theater owners to install aisle scuppers to drain off the tears.
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TIME Magazine
The toughest-minded, most irresolvable movie ever made about race in this country.
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Village Voice
What [the characters] need most from their maker is something he couldn't have given them at the time: the 1960s.
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City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul
Forget those who decry the '50s Hollywood melodrama; it is through the conventions of that hyper-emotional genre that Sirk is able to make such a devastatingly embittered and pessimistic movie.
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Time Out
Description by OLDIES.com:
The story chronicles two widows and their troubled daughters as they struggle to find true happiness amidst racial prejudice. Lora plays the white mother whose Hollywood starlet ambitions come at the expense of any meaningful relationship with her daughter Susie. Her black housekeeper Annie faces rejection of her own fair-skinned daughter Sarah Jane. As years of selfishness and denial pass, tragedy strikes and forces the women to come to terms with their own identities.
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- UPC: 4897007031023
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