Film · 1959 · Films · 1950s
Imitation of Life
Scored from 137 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1950s (561 peers).
Summary
An ambitious aspiring actress befriends a Black widow and her light-skinned daughter, and the two single mothers raise their children together as the actress's career takes off. Over the years, the daughter's painful attempts to pass for white and reject her mother drive the film's parallel story of maternal sacrifice and heartbreak.
Imitation of Life is a 1959 drama film.
137 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 140 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. The cohort it is ranked inside is 1950s films — 561 of them.
Is Imitation of Life (1959) worth watching?
- Cohort
- Films · 1950s · 561 titles
- Calibrated reviewers
- 137
Cohort: Films · 1950s
