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'night, Mother (1986)

PG-13 Sep 12, 1986 Drama 1h 36m
74%
User Score
7.6/10
80%

Overview

A mother and daughter spend a night together after the daughter reveals that she will kill herself by the end of it.

Marsha Norman
Screenplay
Tom Moore
Director

Top Billed Cast

Sissy Spacek
Sissy Spacek

Jessie Cates
Anne Bancroft
Anne Bancroft

Thelma Cates
Ed Berke
Ed Berke

Dawson Cates
Carol Robbins
Carol Robbins

Loretta Cates
Jennifer Roosendahl
Jennifer Roosendahl

Melodie Cates
Michael Kenworthy
Michael Kenworthy

Kenny Cates
Sari Walker
Sari Walker

Agnes Fletcher
Claire Malis
Claire Malis

Operator (VOICE)

Full Cast & Crew

Media

Night mother trailer
Night mother trailer
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A review by Ziggy
Written on June 5, 2023

This movie to me brings together a myriad of emotions. The Director handled bringing perspective to it's viewers by building the relationship of mother and daughter together.

I found this film to be extremely exposing to weaknesses in every family, or person. We tend to overlook the obvious in compassion - the impact of things in others lives.

I weep every time I see this as it exposes those weaknesses that Anne Bancroft learns about too late.

This movie is about isolation, independence, loss of self respect, compassion, and the argument of accepting someone else's choice for life or death.

Sissy is amazing. She draws you in to her world of not being able to see a future a day after, a week or longer because she makes very valid points about continuing.

Bancroft plays the ov...

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