Imitation Of Life 1959 Watch Free in HD

Since the husband';s death, Bea Pullman and her daughter Jessie have had a difficult time making ends meet. Delilah Johnson agrees to be the housekeeper of Bea in exchange for a place for her and her daughter Peola. Bea has a plan to marketing the cake recipe of Delilah. Both become rich soon and then over the years, their friendship is more close. However, their relationship with their daughters become strained. Ashamed of her mother, Peola seeks a new life by coming to the whites land. Bea';s love for her daughter is challenged when she and Jessie love with the same man.

Genre:

Romance, Drama

Actors:

Lana Turner, John Gavin, Sandra Dee, Susan Kohner, Robert Alda, Dan OHerlihy, Juanita Moore, Karin Dicker, Terry Burnham, John Vivyan, Lee Goodman, ...»

Director:

Douglas Sirk

Country:

United States

Release:

1959

IMDb:

7.8

Quality:

Duration:

125 min

TIME Magazine

Imitation of Life is still a potent onion. When passed before the moviegoer's eyes, it may force theater owners to install aisle scuppers to drain off the tears.

May 20, 2011

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Video-Reviewmaster.com

Glossy soaper ahead of its racially themed time.

September 25, 2005

TV Guide

You'll be horrified at how this hokum manipulates you, but the best strategy is to just surrender and enjoy it.

May 20, 2011

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Village Voice

The toughest-minded, most irresolvable movie ever made about race in this country.

March 31, 2015

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City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul

What [the characters] need most from their maker is something he couldn't have given them at the time: the 1960s.

August 20, 2009

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Time Out

Forget those who decry the '50s Hollywood melodrama; it is through the conventions of that hyper-emotional genre that Sirk is able to make such a devastatingly embittered and pessimistic movie.

February 09, 2006

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ColeSmithey.com

[VIDEO] Set in postwar New York, "Imitation of Life" is a wonderfully deceptive film.

April 29, 2011

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Variety

While this device lends more scope, it also results in the overdone busy actress/neglected daughter conflict.

March 19, 2009

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New York Times

This modernized remake of Miss Hurst's frankly lachrymose tale is much the same as its soggy predecessor. It is the most shameless tear-jerker in a couple of years.

March 25, 2006

EmanuelLevy.Com

Douglas Sirk's last Hollywood film is the jewel in his crown, a visually audacious, powerfully acted melodrama, with Lana Turner and Juanita Moore in top form, that was misunderstood and dismissed at the time as just a weepie or soap opera.

June 12, 2005

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Empire Magazine

A consummate display of populist weepie-making.

May 20, 2011

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New Yorker

Sirk unleashed a melodramatic torrent of rage at the corrupt core of American life-the unholy trinity of racism, commercialism, and puritanism.

November 16, 2015

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