If you loved Imitation of Life, try All That Heaven Allows
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 Imitation of Life, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.
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What All That Heaven Allows is
A 1950s melodrama about love that dares not check its privilege between a wealthy widow and her arborist beau. Her children and golf buddies at the club insist she knows her place. It soars like a weepie kite with a flawless cast.
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