An elderly couple are forced to separate themselves from each other after their children refuse to take both into one house.
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Movie1937·92 min
Make Way for Tomorrow
Directed by Leo McCarey
A drama romance film directed by Leo McCarey.
◈ CrunchScore
Top 18%
of all movies · weighted by audience size & source agreement
★ TMDB Audience Rating
7.5/10
220 ratings
About Make Way for Tomorrow
- Pacing
- Measured (4 of 9)
- Tone
- Bittersweet (4 of 9)
- Intensity
- Intense (7 of 9)
- Complexity
- Approachable (4 of 9)
- Humor
- Light-touch (4 of 9)
- Scale
- Personal (4 of 9)
- Spirit
- Earnest (5 of 9)
- Texture
- Contemplative, Gritty
- Story Tags
- family dysfunction, isolation loneliness, grief and loss, early 1900s, domestic home, small town, parent child, romantic partners, everyman, tragedy arc, fish out of water