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Retrospective

Make Way for Tomorrow

FromLeo McCarey

WithVictor Moore, Beulah Bondi, Fay Bainter, Thomas Mitchell

Year1937

Duration92min.

LanguageEnglish

Part of the SADFEST special series.

Lucy Cooper: I figure that everyone is entitled to just so much happiness in life. Some get it in the beginning, and some in the middle, and others at the end. And then there are those that have it spread thin all through the years.

Barkley (Victor Moore) and Lucy Cooper (Beulah Bondi) have lost their home. Their five adult children are too busy, too poor, or too comfortable to take care of them together. So they are separated—he goes to live with a son, she with a daughter. What follows is not a family drama in the classic sense, but a quiet crumbling of dignity, closeness, and belonging.

Leo McCarey's MAKE WAY FOR TOMORROW is a film about aging and about a society that no longer has room for those who created it. Without pathos, without music, without false tears.