There's Always Tomorrow
1956
***½
Director: Douglas Sirk
Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray, Joan Bennett, William Reynolds, Pat Crowley, Gigi Perreau, Jane Darwell, Race Gentry, Myrna Hansen, Judy Nugent
A toy manufacturer feels trapped with his wife and three children, who take him for granted. When he is enamored by his former employee, now a divorcee, he must reassess his past and future. In Douglas Sirk's melodramas like All That Heaven Allows, the American family ideal is not all it's cracked out to be, and that applies to this story about a man who feels the loneliest at home. This is a moving and unpredictable romantic drama with some needlessly soapy turns. Based on Ursula Parrott's 1934 novel.
