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Now, Voyager

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Now, Voyager (1942)

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Reviews Counted:17

Fresh:15

Rotten:2

Average Rating:8.2/10

Runtime: 1 hr 58 mins

Genre: Dramas

Synopsis: Tale of an introverted and frightened woman, long crushed by her domineering mother, who visits a psychotherapist to cure her emotional problems. As a result, she undergoes a dramatic... Tale of an introverted and frightened woman, long crushed by her domineering mother, who visits a psychotherapist to cure her emotional problems. As a result, she undergoes a dramatic transformation, becoming a confident, exciting, and attractive woman. Desperate for the love she has never experienced, she begins a relationship with a married man -- and becomes very attached to his shy, troubled daughter. [More]

Starring: Bette Davis, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains, Gladys Cooper

Starring: Bette Davis, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains, Gladys Cooper, Janis Wilson, Bonita Granville, Ilka Chase, John Loder, Lee Patrick, James Rennie

Director: Irving Rapper

Director: Irving Rapper
Producer: Hal B. Wallis
Screenwriter: Casey Robinson
Composer: Max Steiner

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Compulsively watchable four-hankie weepie.

Full Review Source: Combustible Celluloid | comment Comment
10/18/08
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Combustible Celluloid

Now, Voyager (1942) is the quintessential, soap-opera or "woman's picture" ('weepie') and one of Bette Davis' best-acted and remembered films, coming shortly

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Tim Dirks
Tim Dirks
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Now, Voyager remains a highly narcotic, swoon-inducing romance in the Bette Davis canon.

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06/21/05
Jeremiah Kipp
Jeremiah Kipp
Slant Magazine

Wholly unbelievable.

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11/20/01
Christopher Null
Christopher Null
Filmcritic.com

...romantic and romanticized, sudsy and sentimental...a throwback to an earlier age in Hollywood when movies didn't have to be loud or vulgar to sell a point.

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John J. Puccio
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08/14/08
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Classic to the max, and with Davis, Henried, and those two cigarettes.

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06/29/05
Steve Crum
Steve Crum
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Consummate Warner Bros. melodrama, with Bette excellent as misfit and even better as reborn glamour-puss.

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Nick Davis
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Classic Davis soaper with Henreid doing the double cigarette bit.

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08/14/03
Ken Hanke
Ken Hanke
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

The melodrama to end all melodramas.

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11/28/02
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