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.
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05/20/03
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945)
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Reviews Counted:14
Fresh:14
Rotten:0
Average Rating:7.6/10
Runtime: 2 hrs 8 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: The story centers on young Francis Nolan, whose father's sudden death leaves the family to somehow survive in a harsh, desperate time. Like the tree in the back of their house, uncared for and... [More]
Starring: Dorothy McGuire, Joan Blondell, James Dunn, Lloyd Nolan
Director: Elia Kazan
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Reviews for A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
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Top CriticRarely has the dream factory lavished such skill on such destitution and such insistence that people are not really that changeable in nature.
02/15/09
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.
04/08/09
This family has a great deal of love but a lot of difficulty showing it.
04/13/02
It's a grim tearjerker told with great love and tenderness.
12/17/07
Where Tree is frequently slow, it is offset by the story's significance and pointed up notably by the direction of Elia Kazan.
11/01/07
Top CriticThis episodic, charmingly sentimental movie is a trifle lengthy but never tedious.
12/04/06
Top CriticA sober and reasonably truthful story of life among the lowly.
12/05/08
Top CriticKazan's film has a sharp eye for social detail, but avoids giving occulted status to the peeling paper, damp walls and austere kitchen table.
05/24/03
Top CriticNo review available.
08/22/03
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07/30/02
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10/09/05
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12/03/03
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