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Imitation of Life (1959): Scores Across IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB

Imitation of Life is a 1959 drama, romance film directed by Douglas Sirk. It scores 7.8 on IMDb, 82% on Rotten Tomatoes, 87 on Metacritic, 7.4 on TMDB. Audiences and critics largely agree: IMDb users and Metacritic critics are within 9 points of each other once scaled to 100. Ranked by confidence-weighted IMDb score, it is number 12 of 93 films from 1959 in our catalog and number 113 of 1,511 romance films.

Billed cast: Lana Turner, John Gavin, Sandra Dee, Susan Kohner, Robert Alda, Dan O'Herlihy.

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