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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

1945·2h 9m·PG
DramaRomanceFamily
IMDb Rating
★ 8.0/10
9,056 votes

Encouraged by her idealistic if luckless father, a bright and imaginative young woman comes of age in a Brooklyn tenement during the early 1900s.

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn is a 1945 drama romance movie directed by Elia Kazan, starring Joan Blondell, James Dunn, Peggy Ann Garner. It holds an IMDb rating of 8.0/10 from 9,056 votes and runs 2h 9m.

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Director
Elia Kazan
Stars
Joan Blondell
James Dunn
Peggy Ann Garner
Dorothy McGuire
Details
1945-03-01
129 min
Movie
PG
★ United States
★ English
Keywords
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