The young, handsome, but somewhat wild Eugene Morgan wants to marry Isabel Amberson, daughter of a rich upper-class family, but she instead marries dull and steady Wilbur Minafer. Their only child, George, grows up a spoiled brat. Years later, Eugene comes back, now a mature widower and a successful automobile maker. After Wilbur dies, Eugene again asks Isabel to marry him, and she is receptive. But George resents the attentions paid to his mother, and he and his whacko aunt ... (Full plot summary below)
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The young, handsome, but somewhat wild Eugene Morgan wants to marry Isabel Amberson, daughter of a rich upper-class family, but she instead marries dull and steady Wilbur Minafer. Their only child, George, grows up a spoiled brat. Years later, Eugene comes back, now a mature widower and a successful automobile maker. After Wilbur dies, Eugene again asks Isabel to marry him, and she is receptive. But George resents the attentions paid to his mother, and he and his whacko aunt Fanny manage to sabotage the romance. A series of disasters befall the Ambersons and George, and he gets his come-uppance in the end.
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| DVDLaserDouglas PrattOrson Welles' heavily chopped up drama, it is still a nostalgic, dramatically powerful tale and should ultimately be savored for what it is rather than rejected for what it is not. |
| Tim Dirks' The Greatest FilmsTim DirksThe Magnificent Ambersons (1942) is the legendary Orson Welles' second film - another audacious masterpiece. It was produced, directed, and scripted (but not acted in) |
| New York ObserverAndrew SarrisI must say that I much prefer it to Citizen Kane (1941). So sue me. |
| Los Angeles TimesKevin ThomasAn elegiac saga of the decline and fall of a rich small-town American family, based on a Booth Tarkington novel. |
| Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)Ken HankeAmbersons - even in its mutilated form - has a resonance most movies can only dream of. |
| Chicago ReaderJonathan RosenbaumFor the most part, this is a very close adaptation of Booth Tarkington's underrated novel about the relentless decline of a wealthy midwestern family through the rise of industrialization, though Welles makes the story even more powerful through his extraordinary mise en scene and some of the finest acting to be found in American movies. |
| The A.V. ClubIgnatiy VishnevetskyThe Magnificent Ambersons is still masterly. It’s the movie that all other films about families in decline are measured against. |
| EmpireKim NewmanIt's a tragedy that someone else' happy ending is tacked onto his tale, but the film retains enough brilliance to make us glad it's been re-released. |
| The New YorkerRichard BrodyThe film as it stands is a vision of a lost world of graces and traditions that are as alluring as they are confining, as beautiful as they are useless—as well as a portrait of the makers and the victims of modernity. |
| Village VoiceJ. HobermanThe Magnificent Ambersons is a pretty sensational movie. The film language is more fluid and adept than Kane‘s, the expressionist lighting is more rigorously modulated. |
