You Can’t Take It With You (1938) A Quick Review
This movie is in 3 main parts all with a different tone to it. The first part is the rise of a wealthy family who wants to have a monopoly and run a rival out of business but buying up a 12-block radius of housing around the factory. This is where the workers live. In the time frame of this movie people were very localized and did not commute to work and in fact had no transportation most of the time and public transit just did not exist. The thing is, there is the one family – an extended family – that is holding out and won’t sell their home. This family has taken in others who needed a home and help to survive. There is in the basement of the home a workshop where they illegally make toys, masks, and fireworks. This leads to a misunderstanding with the cops at one point where they think a flyer is communist propaganda. Enter the son developing a love interest with one of the workers. This leads to discontent with his parents to say the least as she is below his station, not to menti...