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American Movie Archives (美國電影檔案)
- Title
- Obligations
- Year
- 1950
- Abstract
- Members of two families illustrate correct and incorrect manner of taking care of their obligations to one another.
- Notes
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Produced: Simmel-Meservey
Sponsor: N/A
Run Time: 16:25
Audio/Visual: Sd, B&W - Keyword
- Social guidance: Etiquette;Social guidance;Kinship;Social guidance;Kinship
- Theme
- Fishing Lure time: Early EARLY morning.
- Review
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The jokers at Simmel-Meservey are up to it again. The makers of "Date With Your Family" return with "Obligations", and, although not as LOOPY as "Date With Your Family" still has a lot of ridiculous things going for it. In the Simmel-Meservey universe where the sons are called Juniors, and the daughters are called "daughters", we are, for this film, shown a sloppy family, where the Smiths are shown to be a complete (but somewhat moral) mess, and then we have the "good" family, where Junior kills time before breakfast working on a hobby (Making fish lures??) daughter makes lunches for her AND Junior, Mother runs the household, and father, of course, doesn't do much except go to work and bring home the paycheck. It looks obvious, by the looks of this film, that Daughter is getting the short end of the stick here, she's got to clean up, make food AND greet the company (lucky Junior gets to go to bed), what does she get? She's forced to do homework on a lamp stand! (Junior gets a desk!) Totally loopy, and of course a MUST SEE on this site!
(Reviewer: Spuzz) - Location
- A/V room, 2/F