MOVIE · 1942
The Magnificent Ambersons
DramaRomance88 min
At the turn of the 20th century in Indianapolis, a spoiled young heir to the proud Amberson family disrupts his widowed mother’s second chance at love just as the family’s fortunes begin to slip. Tim Holt is the overindulged son at the center of the household, while Joseph Cotten is the man his mother once turned away and now finds back in her life. With Dolores Costello as the mother caught between them and Agnes Moorehead in the family orbit, Orson Welles’s film traces private resentment against a city being reshaped by the automobile age.
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