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Imitation of Life (VHS, 1992)

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Item specifics

Condition
Very Good: An item that is used but still in very good condition. No damage to the jewel case or ...
UPC
0096898015233
Signal Standard
NTSC
Rating
NR
Director
Claus Detlev Sierk, Detlef Sierck, Douglas Sirk
Genre
Drama
Movie/TV Title
Imitation of Life
Leading Role
Susan Kohner, John Gavin, Lana Turner, Juanita Moore, Sandra Dee

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Product Information

In Douglas Sirk's emotionally and visually extravagant final film IMITATION OF LIFE, a life's work of subverted melodrama and razor-sharp social commentary are brought to a resounding and baroque climax. In a role that closely resembles and perhaps parodies her own life, Lana Turner plays Lora Meredith, an aspiring actress and single mother who meets Annie Johnson (Juanita Moore), a black and similarly single and struggling mother. When they move in together, Annie assumes the role of domestic servant and the two women struggle together to raise their two daughters. Annie's daughter, Sarah Jane (Susan Kohner), favors her father whose skin tone resembles her own extremely light skin, and she slowly comes to resent her mother's black identity. Transcending the feminist labeling that IMITATION OF LIFE risked, the film freely mixes Meredith's rags to riches (with a hefty moral price tag) tale with Annie's scarring struggles to teach her daughter to accept her identity. As Meredith climbs higher and higher in her glamorous rise to stage and screen stardom, she ignores her vulnerable daughter Susie (Sandra Dee) and creates a devastating contrast for the racial and social tragedy that transpires in her own household. With a deft mixture of icy detachment and morose sentimentality rendered through a transcendent art direction, Sirk leads the film onto an inimitable crescendo of highly adorned emotion and tragedy.

Product Identifiers

UPC
0096898015233
eBay Product ID (ePID)
3093959

Product Key Features

Director
Claus Detlev Sierk, Detlef Sierck, Douglas Sirk
Signal Standard
NTSC
Rating
NR
Movie/TV Title
Imitation of Life
Leading Role
Susan Kohner, John Gavin, Lana Turner, Juanita Moore, Sandra Dee
Genre
Drama

Additional Product Features

Format
Vhs
LeafCats
309
Film Country
USA
Release Date
19920123

Item description from the seller

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Item came as described. Item shipped quickly but took nearly 3 weeks. Not seller's fault that USPS took so long, but item was packed well.
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Perfect book. Fast safe shipping. Great eBay seller. Thanks.
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Goggles were little different than pictures indicate. Item had an imperfection and slight scratches. Cheap enough not worth requesting return.