A struggling widow and her daughter take in a Black housekeeper and her fair-skinned daughter; the two women start a successful business but face familial, identity, and racial issues along the way..
Okay, look. If you're coming to 1934's Imitation of Life expecting something light, turn back now. This is a heavy watch, a real tear-jerker with themes that hit differently now than they did almost a century ago. If you appreciate classic Hollywood melodrama and want to see how racial issues were handled back then, it...
Comparing the cinematic DNA and archive impact of two defining moments in cult history.
John M. Stahl
Edward LeSaint
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"Okay, look. If you're coming to 1934's Imitation of Life expecting something light, turn back now. This is a heavy watch, a real tear-jerker with themes that hit differently now than they did almost a century ago. If you appreciate classic Hollywood melodrama and want to see how racial issues were handled back then, it's absolutely worth seeing. But if you prefer modern pacing or can't stomach some seriously dated racial dynamics, you'll probably find it frustrating, maybe even upsetting. It's a..."
Finley Peter Dunne, William Hurlbut, Sarah Y. Mason, Preston Sturges, Samuel Ornitz, Arthur Richman, Bianca Gilchrist, Walter Ferris, Fannie Hurst, Victor Heerman
United States
Comedy, Drama, Romance
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