Watch Room for One More For Free

Absolutely Brilliant!

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

No need to recap the oft-repeated plot. Note that the movie was produced at the height of the McCarthy red-scare (1951), when Hollywood was reeling from the blacklist. I mention this because the movie makes an unsubtle appeal to traditional values, especially family and patriotism. The latter is unspoken in the Eagle Scout scene, but the visuals are awash in flags, salutes, and proto-military symbolism. Nothing necessarily wrong with this. I note these points because they're very indicative of a period when Hollywood was trying to re-establish its patriotic bona-fides. This Warner Bros. production, I believe, reflects a part of that effort.The movie itself is mostly warm and sentimental, without becoming sappy. That's thanks mainly to the two problem kids (actors Mann and Tatum) who are quite convincing in their emotional travails. I especially like little Iris Mann (Jane). She's neither Hollywoodish pretty nor cute, yet conveys real pathos. Seeing her flower at the prom is especially rewarding. Also Drake registers as Mom with one of the sweetest smiles on record. It's no stretch seeing her as an open-arms type mother. But I have to agree with others. Grant does well in the light comedic role, but is much too sleek and handsome to be playing an every-man. Remember, this is supposed to be an average American family.Somewhat surprisingly, the screenplay is shot through with innuendo, stemming mainly from Poppy's (Grant) frustrations with Mom's many motherly distractions. I suspect these adult asides were added to provide greater mature appeal. Overall, the results are more amusing and comforting, than funny and challenging. True, the film may be dated in many ways, but the moral remains a solid cross-generational one. As the movie shows, kids really do need family and nurture.

I have been a grouchy, childless, curmudgeon for the last 30 years. OK, 40. I especially get cranky with movies of easy sentimentality and clumsy "messages", eg., about patriotism or religion or love or whatever.So, I have no idea why I bothered to tune into this movie, (other than it featuring Cary Grant), since the listing told me everything I needed to not watch it: children, family, adoption, disabilities, etc. Once into it, however, I just had to keep watching. It surely has all sorts of sentimentality, and blatant messages about adoption and the Boy Scouts; however the writing is so wonderfully deft, and the performances (including those of the children) so perfectly understated that I was fully engaged and easily able to forgive the more obvious "message moments" such as Jane being the belle of the ball, and Jimmy-John's predictable physical and emotional transformation into an Eagle Scout.Perhaps being a boy scout, and perhaps remembering a sister's first big dance helps to suck you in, but there are eye-stinging moments enough for anyone, such as Jane refusing her (foster)mother's kiss, and the kids in the orphanage playground stopping their noisy play to watch anxiously the visitors looking at them from the balcony.Next Sunday I'm going to watch the golf, dammit.

Heartwarming tale which proves that environment is a great factor than heredity with regard to placement of children.Cary Grant and Betsy Drake are absolutely fabulous as the couple with 3 children and limited finances; despite this, they take in two difficult foster children.With patience and a firm hand, they are able to succeed beyond the expectation of what many would feel.They did a wonderful job raising their own three children as well. The three knew when to help out.The film excellently pointed out the problems of coping with a foster children; one who comes into your home with an array of problems looking for love and understanding.This is definitely a film that will tug at your heart. It is so nostalgic yet it represents the best of human kindness and dignity. You'll have a tear in your eye, but you will certainly come away with that good feeling of accomplishment.Bless those who take in foster children and are able to work with them.

I watched this movie when I was much younger and the last time I viewed it on television was in 1987 -- this is the kind of movie you track down, because it is a truly a classic -- Cary Grant's and Betsy Drake's performances in this film are so outstanding and so real-life -- He is one comical guy, but sexy too! This movie takes one back to their life in their early years long ago, when living and even being short on funds was as brittle as it is today! I really enjoyed this movie so much, that I hunted it down and finally found it and I watch it all the time now -- I just love Cary Grant -- one of Hollywood's finest! This movie proves that, so watch and enjoy viewing the kind of lives people used to live and life was honestly worth living!