Anna Christie (1930)

Garbo, long estranged from her sailor father, seeks him out when she needs a place to recuperate after hospitalization. While with him, she falls in love with the sea and also with a sailor that they pick up in a storm.

This is not a good movie -- it’s stagey and overly dramatic. Add in the fact that her father, with his desperate “love me despite the fact I’ve never been there for you” pleas, reminded me far too much of my own father, and you’ve got the blueprint for a story in which I have zero interest.

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