6 Comments

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  Keith Moser - 8 months ago

  I tried reverse-engineering the vote count from the displayed percentages. Most other matchups have two decimal places but this 50.7% to 49.3% makes me think this possibly could be 36-35. Was this outcome determined by a single vote? What is the Madness rule if there ever were a tie?!

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  Scott Lentz - 8 months ago

  I watched both of these films for the first time in preparation for Madness. Making me choose between them in the *play-in round*? You’ll he hearing from my lawyer.

  (I gave the edge to All That Heaven Allows by the slimmest of margins.)

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  Lauri - 8 months ago

  It should have been Written on the Wind, y'all. Dotty Malone mambos her father to death!

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  Tripp Burton - 9 months ago

  I feel like IMITATION OF LIFE is going to win here as the more "important" picture, but nothing equals the beauty and heart-break of All That Heaven Allows; it has been remade and copied many times, but it stands strong as the greatest melodrama of all time and nothing quite equals it.

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  Steven Cherry - 9 months ago

  I suppose there was a social commentary aspect to All That Heaven Allows, but it can hardly compare with that of Imitation of Life. Both are heavy-handed and melodramatic, but one earns it and the other doesn't. Plus Rock Hudson was well-named; he's a weight dragging down just about every movie he's in (Giant fans, sorry, but it's true.)

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  Anna Husted - 9 months ago

  You Scoundrels! Both Sirks are better than either Huckster. Already going mad with madness! I love this so much.

  -Anna from Montana