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The Magnificent Ambersons

The Magnificent Ambersons

1942 · 88 min · EN · NR · 7.3 (371 votes)
Dir. Orson Welles · Starring Joseph Cotten, Dolores Costello, Anne Baxter, Tim Holt, Agnes Moorehead, Ray Collins · Music Bernard Herrmann

“Real life screened more daringly than it’s ever been before!”

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The spoiled young heir to the decaying Amberson fortune comes between his widowed mother and the man she has always loved.

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A wistful, elegiac drama about the fading of a grand family and the bittersweet pangs of lost love. It feels like looking through a sepia-toned photograph, capturing a bygone era's romanticism and inevitable decline.

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small townmarriage proposaljealousylove of one's lifemarriage crisisonly child
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