An elderly couple are forced to separate themselves from each other after their children refuse to take both into one house.
Directed by Leo McCarey
bridge
eavesdropping
son-in-law
family reunion
parents
elderly couple
retirement home
general store
dance band
septuagenarian
ballroom
daughter–in–law
rhumba
depressing
Rank
#1 in 1937·#803 overall
Trailer
IMDB
N/A
Letterboxd
4.2 / 5
Where to Watch
Cast
Victor Moore
Barkley Cooper
Beulah Bondi
Lucy Cooper
Fay Bainter
Anita Cooper
Thomas Mitchell
George Cooper
Porter Hall
Harvey Chase
Barbara Read
Rhoda Cooper
Maurice Moscovitch
Max Rubens
Elisabeth Risdon
Cora Payne
Minna Gombell
Nellie Chase
Louise Beavers
Mamie
Louis Jean Heydt
Doctor
Gene Morgan
Carlton Gorman
Crew
Leo McCarey
Director
George Antheil
Original Music Composer
Victor Young
Original Music Composer
William C. Mellor
Director of Photography
Leo McCarey
Producer
Adolph Zukor
Producer
Nolan Leary
Theatre Play
Eugene Joseff
Other
Popular Reviews
116 reviews
Jack Sinclair
8.6★ · 05/25/26
Gorgeously performed film, writing is top notch and I don’t think I’ve ever been so invested in an elderly couple as much has this!
The film describes itself as devistatingly sad and it delivers.
Gorgeously performed film, writing is top notch and I don’t think I’ve ever been so invested in an elderly couple as much has this!
The film describes itself as devistatingly sad and it delivers.
Andrii Fedorychko
7.0★ · 03/29/26
This movie has an interesting way to show older people without them being obsessed with their kids.
I just didn’t like an ending being just dance, maybe there wasn’t better way to end it, but still
This movie has an interesting way to show older people without them being obsessed with their kids.
I just didn’t like an ending being just dance, maybe there wasn’t better way to end it, but still
sacredserenity
8.0★ · 03/06/26
So beautiful and insanely devastating. Don’t watch if you’re already depressed
So beautiful and insanely devastating. Don’t watch if you’re already depressed
Omar
8.0★ · 01/05/26
«أقسى ما في التقدّم في العمر ليس الضعف، بل أن تصبح عبئًا على من تحبهم.»
المشهد الاخير م حنساه ف اي وقت قريب، تحفة كلاسيكية
«أقسى ما في التقدّم في العمر ليس الضعف، بل أن تصبح عبئًا على من تحبهم.»
المشهد الاخير م حنساه ف اي وقت قريب، تحفة كلاسيكية
Ellie Alvarez
9.0★ · 12/07/25
An empathetic portrait of the Great Depression era and also one of the best anti-capitalist texts about living without the one person you really connect with and are meant to be with, one of the saddest and heartbreaking endings ever.
An empathetic portrait of the Great Depression era and also one of the best anti-capitalist texts about living without the one person you really connect with and are meant to be with, one of the saddest and heartbreaking endings ever.