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You'll Like My Mother (1972)

You'll Like My Mother poster
Directed by
Lamont Johnson
Genre
horror film, thriller film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 32m
Rated
PG
Rating
6.3 of 10 from 25 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A pregnant widow travels to rural Minnesota to meet her mother-in-law for the first time. She soon realizes the woman has sinister plans for her.

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What happens

You'll Like My Mother is a 1972 American horror-thriller film directed by Lamont Johnson, from screenplay by Jo Heims based on the novel of the same name by Naomi A. Hintze. The film stars Patty Duke, Rosemary Murphy, Richard Thomas and Sian Barbara Allen. The film follows a pregnant widow who travels to rural Minnesota to meet her mother-in-law, whom she discovers has sinister motives against her. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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