Make Way for Tomorrow (1937)

In Make Way for Tomorrow, a septuagenarian couple loses their house and – without any warning at all – asks their fortysomething kids to take them in. But the old folks refuse to lie low and stay out of their kids' hair, complaining and otherwise making nuisances of themselves. The film obviously sympathizes with these two old people, but I was not having a moment of it. They intrude on their kids' lives, cause a ton of trouble, and then have the gall to blame their kids and make them feel awful for not financially supporting them. The whole thing is so morally backward. And the film actually believes that these kids are terrible people and that the old folks are lovable and pitiable. Not for me. These two old people were assholes.

I think this is so noticeable to me because I do not feel the same way about Ozu's Tokyo Story, which is based on Make Way for Tomorrow. The old folks in Ozu's film are lovable, and their kids really are the jerks. The kids are not jerks in Make Way for Tomorrow. I also remember liking Randolph Edmonds' 1934 play Old Man Pete, which has a similar conceit: an old couple from Virginia moves to Harlem to visit their children and stay with them. 

It's the two characters in Make Way for Tomorrow. They just don't seem to understand that they're in the way, and they have no ability at all to read the room. They're awful people.