All Fall Down (1962)

Directed by

John Frankenheimer

Genre

drama film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 51m

Rated

NR

Rating

6.0 of 10 from 30 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young man returns to his childhood home and struggles with his overbearing mother. His presence stirs up old family tensions and hidden resentments.

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What happens

All Fall Down is a 1962 American drama film, adapted from the novel All Fall Down (1960) by James Leo Herlihy, who later wrote Midnight Cowboy (1965). John Frankenheimer directed and John Houseman produced. The screenplay was adapted by playwright William Inge and the film starred Eva Marie Saint and Warren Beatty. Upon its release, the film was a minor box-office hit. Together with her performance in Frankenheimer's The Manchurian Candidate (1962), Angela Lansbury (who played a destructively manipulative mother in both films) won the year's National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actress. The film was entered in the 1962 Cannes Film Festival. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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