'night, Mother (1986)

Directed by

Tom Moore

Genre

drama film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 36m

Rated

PG-13

Rating

7.4 of 10 from 40 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A woman tells her mother she plans to kill herself later that night. The rest of the movie is their conversation in the house.

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What happens

'night, Mother is a 1986 American drama film starring Sissy Spacek and Anne Bancroft. It was directed by Tom Moore and written by Marsha Norman, based on Norman's Pulitzer Prize-winning play of the same name. The film was entered into the 37th Berlin International Film Festival. Tom Moore had also directed the play on Broadway. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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