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By Jeff B (2,998) on 03 Apr 2011

Well, this certainly is a sappy romance from the 50s, but it's also certainly well told and delivered…

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By Edith N (976) on 11 Dec 2010

Possibly if I'd seen this Sirk film first, I would have rated it higher…

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By Benjamin S (705) on 04 Oct 2010

Great Melodrama about a very unorthodox Love which is reached by Accidents…

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By Daniel C (1,809) on 28 Apr 2010

Sirk is cinematic cake. So bad for you, but so goddamn delicious…

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By Darwin V (9) on 10 Apr 2010

An accident leads to death. The death leads to another accident. And the second accident leads to…

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By Lynne N (168) on 04 Apr 2010

The plot is a little far-fetched, even for Sirk, but that is just one flaw and is easily forgiven…

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By James P (1,130) on 18 Mar 2010

Tenderly touches on the strains of remorse and forgiveness, primarily through Hudson's sympathetic performance and Russell Metty's gentle Technicolor…

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By Mark S (2,772) on 17 Dec 2009

Melodrama a plenty in this tale about a wealthy playboy and what he does with his money...and his love…

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By Tom B (1,265) on 10 Oct 2009

America learns the horrible price of Rock Hudson's destiny in this lavishly ravaging, tongue-in-cheek melodrama…

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By Karl S (177) on 04 Aug 2009

This is a wonderful movie of the fifties, with a cast of stars that in today?s film world would be unheard off…

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By Bryan T (261) on 05 Jun 2009

People keep forgetting that melodrama was a serious genre (or subgenre, more exactly) before it was butchered by daytime television…

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By Eric F (636) on 29 May 2009

Share the plot of Douglas Sirk's Magnificent Obsession to a loved one and they'll ask what soap opera you're referencing…

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By Russell G (1,053) on 04 May 2009

The girl I like is blind. I better go to medical school! ~ A.V. Club…

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By Yoli G (30) on 13 Mar 2009

Even for a Douglas Sirk film this is very sappy and over the top…

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By Cecilia C (159) on 03 Mar 2009

Well-made, with spectacular use of colour. But it's all a bit far-fetched…

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By Lauren S (792) on 01 Mar 2009

So wonderfully overwrought and impossible - it totally works magic…

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By Patrick D (1,000) on 01 Feb 2009

Expressive colours, Incredible emotions, dramatic twists…

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By Bryan M (443) on 26 Jan 2009

I watched this after hearing it mentioned in an interview by quentin tarantino of all people…

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By Eric Henderson (366) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 23 Jan 2009

What people don't quite give Sirk credit for nowadays in their rush to justify his intellectual credentials is the fact that if he didn't necessarily…

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By Sean Axmaker (1,564) for Parallax View (176) on 20 Jan 2009

[Sirk's] unreal exaggerations offer a beautiful world of beautiful people and tortured emotions and grand sacrifice to the altar of love…

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