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Plot: It used to be called "miscegenation," and it hasn't been a scandalous or taboo subject for several decades now. (Every other prime-time TV series seems to have an interracial romance going, and nobody...( read more read more... ) bats an eyelash.) These welcome social changes have stranded Elia Kazan's 1949 weepie about a light-skinned African American woman (played less than convincingly by lily-white Jeanne Crain) who tries to "pass"---and falls in love with a white man. Director Douglas Sirk mined similar territory, and got a lot more juice out of it, in Imitation of Life. To his credit, perhaps, the director of On the Waterfront just doesn't have cheap soapsuds in his blood, and he makes the fatal mistake of taking a solemn and high-minded approach to this overheated material. The picture isn't even a hoot. Ethel Waters is the aunt who raises Pinky, while concealing her true lineage; it's a strong performance with a simmering subtext of anger. David Chute

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  • seleh87
    seleh87
    5.0 Stars
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    July 13, 2008
    Pinky was something like An Imitation of Life, but only she stopped denying her real self, an negro lady......yeah she make have lived as a white girl going to nursing shool while her black grandmother worked very hard washing and ironing clothes so she could be educated and have somewhat of a better life.....she didn'tdeny who she was....in the end........very good movie.....It's always good to be yourself.....And be proud of who you are and the skin that you're in......If somebody has a problem with it, too dam bad....
  • svmainus
    svmainus
    3.5 Stars
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    November 13, 2007
    I watched as it's an Elia Kazan flick I had not seen. It's along the lines of "Imitation of Life" only for me not nearly as well done; never the less a very brave subject for it's time.
    PS the plot here at Flixter is wrong. Ethel Waters plays Pinky's Grandmother - not her Aunt.
  • thesavvybamalady
    thesavvybamalady
    5.0 Stars
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    October 10, 2007
    Another favorite. A young girl(Jeanne Crain)who is black but passed for white in order to have the best, comes back home to her grandmother and has her own carefully constructed world crashing down. I guess the lesson here is no matter where or how far you go, you just can't forget where you come from. plain and simple.
  • villpeeps
    villpeeps
    4.0 Stars
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    August 12, 2007
    One of the first movies to challenge racism! It did a pretty good job at it to. Jeanne Crain was good in the film, however they should have cast a black actress in the lead.

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