Now, Voyager (1942)

Well, this film is horribly dated.
Charlotte Vale's (Bette Davis's) life is controlled by her domineering, vile mother (Gladys Cooper). Gladys believes that she knows what is best for Charlotte but that couldn't be further from the truth. Charlotte is miserable, frittering away her time carving soaps in her attic bedroom, getting picked on by her teenage niece, June (Bonita Granville). Fortunately, her sister-in-law and only ally, Lisa (Ilka Chase) gets Dr. Jaquith (Claude Rains) to send her to a rehabilitation center for her mental breakdown.
Naturally, she recovers away from her mother and is able to shed the glasses, gets her eyebrows plucked and turns beautiful. Not ready to return to her mother's house, she goes on a South American cruise where she meets and falls in love with the unhappily married Jerry Durrance (Casablanca's Paul Henreid). His wife actually sounds worse than Charlotte's mother, if that is possible.
The relationship ends (as it must due to the film codes of the 1940s) and Charlotte returns home, nearly marries a wonderful doctor (John Loder) before causing her mother so much stress, Gladys keels over and suffers a fatal heart attack. Believing she will have another breakdown, she goes back to the rehab center but instead meets Tina (Janis Wilson), Jerry's unwanted second daughter, who is deeply depressed and suicidal, though these issues are only brushed on.
Charlotte gets what she wanted, to have Jerry's child. It's a sick fantasy, but she knows that this is the closest she can get to having her dream. And she has other dreams too, helping Dr. Jaquith reconfigure the rehab center, so her life is truly filled with purpose, and it was a long time coming.
Now, as I've mentioned to open, the film is quite dated and filled with largely rich people, as per most Bette Davis films. And her fantasy of having Jerry's child by forcing herself into Tina's life is sick, why not persuade Jerry to divorce his wife so he can also have happiness?
And, for the record, she should have ended up with Dr. Jaquith who probably respected her the most of the three main male characters in this film. But that's just my opinion.
Fortunately, the screen play was good and crammed tons of plot into a two hour film and Cooper and Davis were brilliant and completely worthy of their Oscar nominations. Grade: B+
Side Notes:
-Another notable problem, for a romance film to have their first kiss done while Charlotte was sleeping (a rape kiss, in other words) is just wrong, on so many levels.
-Clearly, there is no way this film occurred in modern times, but probably a few years earlier as there is so much boat traveling to South America.
-Do Charlotte and Jerry have sex, my guess would be yes.
-Bette Davis looks too good to go camping and continues to look good even after leaving running water.
-Why was Charlotte wearing glasses in the first place if she didn't need them?