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Imitation of Life
Category: Comedy
Duration: 00:02:38
Publish Date: 2010-03-23 04:00:00
Description:

Fannie Hurst's four-hankie bestseller had been filmed before in 1934, but Douglas Sirk's 1959 remake, his last Hollywood film, is the one to remember. Derided at the time by critics and audiences, it has come to sum up Sirk's serial attack on the hypocritical institutions of family and motherhood as practiced in '50s America.
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