Review of When I Grow Up

Regardless of where they grow up, little boys of every generation are going to get into trouble at some point, add for a boy and his grandfather in this movie, they can relate to that. Bobby Driscoll plays a dual role, his character in The present-day and the young version of his grandfather, played by Uncle Henry of "The Wizard of Oz", Charley Grapewin. Harry Morgan and Elizabeth Fraser are the modern-day parents address school, and Robert Preston and Martha Scott are Grapewin's parents in the past. Witnessing his grandson getting into trouble, Ray Quinn reminisces on his growing up with very strict father Preston who forbade him from hanging out with his best friend, a kid from the other side of the tracks, and it was only when a life-threatening illness struck that his father would come around. When kids act up, the parents always act like they works perfect as kids, and that's what this film is there for to remind the parents who watch it that they were not.

It's a heartwarming film that doesn't overload the plot with unnecessary comic relief or too many pathos, although when the young version of Grapewin's character gets sick, there are a few tears shed although it's obvious that he survives since grapewin is in the present day part of the film. This isn't the Andy Hardy style view of what it's like to be a high-spirited young boy, and the arguments between the fathers and sons of both senerations are very realistic and often a nightmare for those who have bad memories of their growing-up years. For a film coming from the low-budget Eagle lion, This truly is a classic that most classic movie fans have probably never heard of, but once they discover it, they won't forget it.