Film · MGM · 1935
David Copperfield
63Watch it awake.
The childhood is hard, the stepfather stays cruel, and a child can watch.
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The review
A boy loses his mother to a cruel stepfather, walks to an aunt, and grows up among people who help and people who use him. Freddie Bartholomew is the child. W. C. Fields plays Micawber. A child can watch most of it. The childhood is hard, and the film does not hide the stepfather. That was enough. I didn't need anyone making that man kinder than he is.
The walk is the part I trusted. A boy who has lost his mother to that stepfather sets out for an aunt, and the growing that follows is whoever takes him and whoever uses him. We sat through it. I left the stepfather as mean as the picture does, and I was glad the story also keeps people who help.
Journal
Keep David Copperfield in the record.
No house has filed a sentence for this yet.
Live Historic number 63. Yours can differ.
The glance
Industry and Republic are the thin ones.
Does anyone here do a real job, and does that job matter?
This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.
Consider this
The Yearling
75 instead of 63
The Yearling is still a drama film, and it scores 75 instead of 63. What you gain is industry: The crop in the scrub is the family's living, and losing it means no food.
The eight
- 4Industry
He grows up among users and helpers; a trade is not the plot.
- 8Household
He loses his mother to a cruel stepfather, then reaches an aunt.
- 6Piety
An aunt takes the boy the cruel stepfather did not keep.
- 7Courage
The boy walks to an aunt after his mother is gone.
- 4Republic
Help and use are the only bonds the growing boy is given.
- 6Temperance
A hard childhood, told without chasing a louder shock.
- 8Truth
The childhood is hard, and the stepfather is not hidden.
- 7Stewardship
A child can watch most of it and still meet people who help.
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Live Historic · David Copperfield · 63IMDb
