I dare anyone to watch this, and not tear up!
What a touching movie, and it's still just as relevant, the eternal story of kind, elderly parents, with their fates in the hands of selfish, self-centered adult brats.
shareI definitely teared up at the end. I take it you just watched it on TCM as well.
shareYes, I just saw it, for the first time. I can't believe I missed a movie THIS great before this!
shareSame! It's a damn shame it's so overlooked. I already want to watch it again.
shareJust saw it for the first time too. That final scene with the mother watching the train leave is just heartbreaking.
shareI'd like to think that the mother's talk with the eldest son plus whatever it was that their father said over the telephone made the children straighten up and fly right. I want the mother to go California and spend the rest of her life together with her husband.
shareBut you know when Bondi says goodbye to her husband when he gets on that train, they'll never be together again (in this life, at least.) You know that's the last time she'll ever see him alive.
shareI saw it last night as well. The parents are stoic at their parting, knowing they might not live to see each other again. However, at the same time, the children are talking about how self-centered they have been, so there is some hope that they will get organized and do the right thing to make sure the parents can be together.
shareTo be honest, Thomas Mitchell's character strikes me as the only one who would have been willing to try to change- the others seem to accept the fact that they're lousy...and are willing to live with that...as long as they don't remoond themselves of it too often.
What a film. So simply shot (though McCarey does frame certain moments particularly well) but full of emotions.