MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS

Judy Garland stars in Vincente Minnelli’s glorious Technicolor musical about a year in the life of the Smith family, whose happiness in turn-of-the-century St. Louis is threatened by a proposed move to New York. As Esther Smith falls for the boy next door and her younger sister Tootie pursues her own more macabre interests, Minnelli gives the pleasures and disappointments of childhood the full emotional weight of adult life. MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS is both an affectionate portrait of family life and a quietly devastating film about the fear of losing it, brought beautifully together in Garland’s climactic rendition of “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas.”

“As exuberant and eager-to-please as a vaudeville number, with the rises and falls and tonal consistency of a perfect pop song, MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS is one of the most naggingly perfect of all American movies." - Michael Koresky, Reverse Shot