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Meet Me in St. Louis

1944

Vincente Minnelli

Judy Garland, Margaret O'Brien, Mary Astor, Lucille Bremer ...

7.0

2,056

Musical. Drama. Romance. Comedy St. Louis 1903. The well-off Smith family has four beautiful daughters, including Esther and little Tootie. 17-year old Esther has fallen in love with the boy next door who has just moved in, John. He however, barely notices her at first. The family is shocked when Mr. Smith reveals that he has been transfered to a nice position in New York, which means that the family has to leave St. Louis and the St. Louis Fair.

	Author	Review
United States	Time	"A musical that even the deaf should enjoy"	POS
United Kingdom	Jamie Russell BBC	"Combining some wonderful song and dance routines with a cast of memorable characters, Meet Me in St Louis is certainly one the best Hollywood musicals ever"	POS
United States	TV Guide	"Minnelli proves his eye for detail and captures the era and its values in richly colored, gentle images, displaying a startling balance of emotions from scene to scene, song to song."	POS
United States	Noel Murray AV Club	"An ambitious nostalgia piece with a broad emotional palette"	POS
United Kingdom	Time Out	"A heavenly slice of brassy Hollywood romanticism that’ll still have you swooning all the way to the trolley stop."	POS

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