If you loved All That Heaven Allows, try Imitation of Life
A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.
What they share
Both films are directed by Douglas Sirk, and they both carry the bittersweet, outsider, tender mood tags, and they sit in Drama / Romance territory. If that's the register that drew you to All That Heaven Allows, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.
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What Imitation of Life is
A melodrama about the American dream and its fine print shares a dressing room with a motherless girl. The widow’s stage ambitions collide with the maid’s quiet fight to build a life for her light-skinned daughter. It ends where many happy endings begin.
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