Tuesday, December 16, 2008

In This Our Life (1942)

Two sisters, one very bad and the other very good. The former is engaged to a lawyer and the latter is married to a doctor. The sisters' father and his brother-in-law were once business partners. A young African-American servant wants to become a lawyer. The Internet Movie Database Plot Summary is considerably more detailed, but in my opinion it spoils the film, as it did for me to a certain extent.

Cathartic drama where people take to one side of the family or the other and women have men's names. Sexual highlights: when her husband disapproves of her best friend (a woman), the bad sister retorts that she might get new ones he would disapprove of even more; the good sister doesn't want to get married for a while, she just wants to "be happy"; the bad sister says she would do "anything" for her uncle if he would just help her with a certain trouble she got into.

Rating: 53

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