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One-time movie song-and-dance man James Dunn won an Academy Award for his "comeback" performance in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. Based on the best-selling novel by Betty Smith, the film relates the trials and tribulations of a turn-of-the-century Brooklyn tenement family. The father, Dunn, is a likable but irresponsible alcoholic whose dreams of improving his family's lot are invariably doomed to disappointment. The mother, Dorothy McGuire, is the true head of the household, steadfastly holding the
Feb 28, 1945 Wide
Feb 22, 2005
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
All Critics (15) | Top Critics (3) | Fresh (15) | Rotten (0) | DVD (1)
A sober and reasonably truthful story of life among the lowly.
Top CriticWhere Tree is frequently slow, it is offset by the story's significance and pointed up notably by the direction of Elia Kazan.
Elia Kazan has directed this picture, his first, with an easy naturalness that has brought out all the tone of real experience in a vastly affecting film.
Faithful adaptation of classic family story.
Kazan's first film, a sentimental family melodrama, is well acted (James Dunn won a Supporting Oscar), but it doesn't begin to suggest the powerful director he would become in the 1950s.
Rarely has the dream factory lavished such skill on such destitution and such insistence that people are not really that changeable in nature.
It's a grim tearjerker told with great love and tenderness.
This episodic, charmingly sentimental movie is a trifle lengthy but never tedious.
Kazan's film has a sharp eye for social detail, but avoids giving occulted status to the peeling paper, damp walls and austere kitchen table.
This family has a great deal of love but a lot of difficulty showing it.
Director Elia Kazan gives us his adaptation of the Betty Smith novel about a young girl coming-of-age in 1900s Brooklyn. Living with an alcoholic father and a workaholic mother, she and her tough little brother try to survive the rough times in their little apartment home. The father is a singing waiter and dreams of
February 5, 2010Super Reviewer
A family living in poverty with a realist mother and a dreamer dad. Touching father/daughter scenes full of their optimism despite their circumstances are well-executed due to the talents of Dunn and Garner. This movie definitely requires a box of tissues.
May 14, 2009
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