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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.
23 November 1871, Odessa, Kherson Governorate, Russian Empire [now Ukraine]
August 2, 1880 in Nagyvárad, Austria-Hungary [now Oradea, Romania]
28 May 1892, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
December 5, 1892 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA
October 3, 1902 in Harmony, Pennsylvania, USA
18 July 1894, New York, USA
7 December 1893, Los Angeles, California, USA
September 21, 1903 in Naples, Campania, Italy
December 11, 1883 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
24 May 1885, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
19 September 1888, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
29 March 1908, Fort Madison, Iowa, USA
February 24, 2010
Make Way eulogizes humanity so well that it's as painful as it is beautiful.
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.
March 17, 2012
The final third is an absolute miracle - one of the greatest sequences in 1930s American cinema.
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.
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.
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.
May 01, 2010
The most convincing love story ever put on screen.
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.
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.
July 28, 2009
An Ozu-like tear-jerker family drama.
