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I'll Cry Tomorrow

1955 · 117 min

A sobering, emotionally raw rise-and-fall biography that wrings pity and tension from a star's self-destruction and slow recovery.

Tagline
The frank, revealing story of Lillian Roth's life! Best-seller now a film sensation.
Overview
Deprived of a normal childhood by her ambitious mother, Lillian Roth becomes a star of Broadway and Hollywood before she is twenty. Shortly before her marriage to her childhood sweetheart, David Tredman, he dies and Lillian takes her first drink of many down the road of becoming an alcoholic.

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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 3 of 3
  • darkstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • addiction
  • grief
  • family
  • ambition
  • trauma
Places
  • big city
  • workplace
Era
period
Audience
adult
Form
  • true story
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
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Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror2
Humour2
Realism8
Romance5
Tension5
Darkness7
Complexity5
Emotional weight8

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Genres
drama
Directed by
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Written by
Jay Richard Kennedy, Helen Deutsch
Starring
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Music
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Cinematography
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Runtime
117 min
Country
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Languages
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