Tree Grows in Brooklyn

Tree Grows in Brooklyn

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  • A Film for These Times

    Dec 12 '01
    Pros: so real and beautiful
    Cons: so real and sad for some

    Summary: Just the Facts: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945) 128 minutes, Black and White, English. Directed by Elia Kazan. Starring Dorothy McGuire, James Dunne, and Peggy Ann Garner. Based on the book by Betty Smith. (Much different from the book,...

  • A Tree Grows In Brooklyn

    Aug 29 '01
    Pros: shows how big cities lived in 1900
    Cons: none

    Summary: I just ran across the movie the other night on one of the old movie channels on my Direct TV.

    TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN was made it 1945 from Betty Smith novel, who also wrote " JOY IN THE MORNING.' I love that book, but didn't like the movie...

  • A Wonderful Though Somewhat Different Telling Than the Book

    Feb 25 '01
    Pros: wonderful period detail, moving performances
    Cons: book was still better

    Summary: I really loved this film the first time I saw it and it was still just as wonderful on each consecutive viewing. The only time I found myself disappointed in the film was the first time I watched it after reading the book.

    I would certainly...

  • Fatherly Love

    Jan 23 '00
    Pros: Sweet and lovely film
    Cons: SAD!!

    Summary: I have always loved "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn," both the book and the film, but I never really understood the grief and sorrow that Francie and her family experience until the death of my own father. Now I can relate to this story on a much...

  • A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945)

    Nov 06 '99
    Pros: direction, script, casting, sets
    Cons: often very sad, production code pregnancy

    Summary: Elia Kazan is best known for making a star of Marlon Brando in A Streetcar Named Desire and On the Waterfront, and introducing James Dean with East of Eden and Warren Beatty with Splendor in the Grass. He made other great mo ...

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