Imitation of Life

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Plot: The last film in Hollywood of director Douglas Sirk (Written on the Wind), the 1959 Imitation of Life--an adaptation of Fannie Hurst's novel--is an endlessly fascinating film that speaks...( read more  ) volumes about the American journey toward materialism and the racial tensions that are inseparable from it. Lana Turner plays a white single mother and aspiring actress who takes in a black housekeeper (Juanita Moore) and her daughter (played by an adolescent Susan Kohner), the latter so light-skinned she passes for white. As the years pass and success mounts for Turner, Moore also becomes more comfortable but her status as a domestic never changes. Meanwhile, Kohner's character, chafing against social constraints, rebels at every opportunity and throws a wrench into the perfect order Sirk chillingly captures through the precise, architectural design of his images. On one hand a '50s weepie and on the other a daring allegory, Imitation of Life is an unusual masterpiece. --Tom Keogh

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  lasham73

  Each time I see it, I still cry. Excellent movie.

  posted 359 days ago

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  Dan O'Herlihy
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  John Gavin
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  Juanita Moore
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  Lana Turner
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  Mahalia Jackson
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  Robert Alda
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  Sandra Dee
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  Susan Kohner
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  Troy Donahue

• Rated: (Unrated)
• Directed by: Douglas Sirk
• Genres: Drama, Classics
• Released: April 30, 1959
• DVD Released: January 7, 2003

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