"Make Way for Tomorrow" [M2]

Inspired to see this by a column in Slate upon a new release by Criterion.
This is one downer of a movie about a couple married for 50 years, whose kids cannot get it together to take care of their parents when their parents lose their house. At first the father stays with a daughter and the mother stays with a son. The daughter treats her father like dirt, although the father befriends a Jewish owner of a newsstand. The son treats his mother a bit better, but still the daughter in law blames the mother for their daughters running around town- for with grandma in the way, the daughter can't bring her friends home and so the only other choice is running around. So when the father catches cold they decide to send him off to the unseen daughter in California, but she has only room for one and not for both. And they send the mother off to a home for aged women. And mother and father get to spend one last afternoon together in New York City, the place where they spent their honeymoon.
This is a tear jerker, but because I am considering abandoning my parents to my siblings and their fate, it made me feel real bad and I did not like watching this movie.
Thomas Mitchell is a bit of a plus (It's a wonderful life and Only angels have wings) plus the black maid I recognized from "imitation of life" and Ma played Jimmy Stewart's ma in Mr. smith goes to washington. but to consider these recognized faces a joy, in the midst of the grief of bad children is untrue.