What an extraordinary film, it's so touching. I could not imagine anyone not being moved by this movie. The entire cast is magnificent. Elia Kazan does an amazing job directing. One if the most remarkable things about the film is that it hasn't dated much at all. Unusual for 1945...( read more)
I loved this movie as a kid. I would like to see it again now that I am an adult.
This is my absolute favorite coming-of-age story. There is an intelligent young girl living in the city during hard times when folks had some real struggles and were proud, hard-working people doing whatever they can to make ends meet without handouts.
The book is more in depth,...( read more)
Sweet film. Some of the acting isn't great but it's still worth a watch.
A story of one little girls love for her daddy, a lovable bumb and the stuggles of poverty during the 1940's. When the lovable on coot dies, the mother must figure out how to make ends me for her family and the new baby on the way.
Great story of Francie, growing up in 1900s Brooklyn, poor, with a scrimping mother and an alcoholic father. I bawled when Francie got her graduation bouquet.
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