Highest Rated Review by the Community
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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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