Obligations (1950)

★★★★★ · Fishing Lure time: Early EARLY morning. · Spuzz · 2003-12-01

The jokers at Simmel-Meservey are up to it again. The makers of "Date With Your Family" return with "Obligations", and, although not as LOOPY as "Date With Your Family" still has a lot of ridiculous things going for it. In the Simmel-Meservey universe where the sons are called Juniors, and the daughters are called "daughters", we are, for this film, shown a sloppy family, where the Smiths are shown to be a complete (but somewhat moral) mess, and then we have the "good" family, where Junior kills time before breakfast working on a hobby (Making fish lures??) daughter makes lunches for her AND…

★★★★ · Let's Be Anal in 1950 · JayKay49 · 2015-07-05

Another wishfull thinking fable where kids in the one house are as tightly wound as the parents could ever hope them to be. The 1950's was rather like this in many households, though. For good reason too. Many of those parents went through 2 world wars, lots of dead friends and relatives, a horrible flu epidemic and of course the depression. All they wanted now was to just be left alone and no static from the kids. The concept was well illustrated in this very classic film which compares total slobs to a household run like an army barracks. Corny and laughable, Simmel Meservey go whole hog…

★★★ · Too perfect! · ERD · 2005-10-14

The "organized family in the film is so perfect, so calm, so collected. Nothing ever goes wrong. The girl should turn out to be a good stepford wife. If only life would be so simple!