A member's choice, Leo McCarey’s Depression-era drama follows an elderly couple who are evicted by the bank and destined to be separated from one another when they move in with their selfish adult children who seem desperate to get rid of them. Before they are forced to split up, the couple take one last outing together where they reminisce over their lives together and lament a future without each other.
A tonal departure for Leo McCarey, who was best known for his comedies with Laurel and Hardy and the Marx Brothers, Make Way For Tomorrow received little attention upon its release but has since earned praise as an unsung masterpiece. Orson Welles in 1992 said the film “would make a stone cry” and Errol Morris stated it was his No.1 film of all time. When McCarey won the Best Director Oscar for his screwball comedy The Awful Truth, released in the same year as Make Way For Tomorrow, he stood up and said, “Thanks, but you gave it to me for the wrong picture.”
Make Way for Tomorrow is a members' choice selection by Adeem Altaf, who says: "One of the greatest films ever made and it is barely ever revived even at independent cinemas."
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