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Key Information
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| Directors: |
Douglas Sirk |
| Stars: |
Lana Turner |
| Actors: |
Dan O'Herlihy |
| Genre: |
Dramas |
| Subgenre: |
Family Interaction · Tear Jerker · Race Relations · Based On A Novel · Racism · Classic · Drama · Drama (General) |
| MPAA Rating: |
Not Rated |
| Available Formats: |
DVD |
| UPC: |
096898015233 |
| Release Date: |
1959 |
| Running Time: |
2hr 4min |
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Languages
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| Original Language: |
English |
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DVD Editions
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Format: DVD
Release Company: Universal Studios Home Video (January 07, 2003)
UPC: 025192261121 |
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VHS Editions
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Format: VHS, 2hr 4min |
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Credits
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| Screenwriter: |
Eleanore Griffin |
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Professional Reviews
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(02/05/2008, Dave Kehr): "[A] Lana Turner soap opera turned into an exercise in metaphysical formalism by Sirk's finely textured and densely layered images." |
| More Information |
| Details: |
In Douglas Sirk's emotionally and visually extravagant final film IMITATION OF LIFE, a life's work of subverted melodrama and razor-sharp social commentary are brought to a resounding and baroque climax. In a role that closely resembles and perhaps parodies her own life, Lana Turner plays Lora Meredith, an aspiring actress and single mother who meets Annie Johnson (Juanita Moore), a black and similarly single and struggling mother. When they move in together, Annie assumes the role of domestic servant and the two women struggle together to raise their two daughters. Annie's daughter, Sarah Jane (Susan Kohner), favors her father whose skin tone resembles her own extremely light skin, and she slowly comes to resent her mother's black identity. Transcending the feminist labeling that IMITATION OF LIFE risked, the film freely mixes Meredith's rags to riches (with a hefty moral price tag) tale with Annie's scarring struggles to teach her daughter to accept her identity. As Meredith climbs higher and higher i... |
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