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Manufacturer: Universal Studios Home Video
Starring: Sissy Spacek, Anne Bancroft, Ed Berke, Carol Robbins, Jennifer Roosendahl
Directed By: Tom Moore
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Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9780783237299
Format: Color
ISBN: 0783237294
Label: Universal Studios Home Video
Manufacturer: Universal Studios Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Universal Studios Home Video
Release Date: 2000-04-18
Running Time: 96
Studio: Universal Studios Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: 1986-09-12
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Summary: Not for the faint of heart
Comment: Read some of the other reviews and you'll know the basis of the story. But this kind of film is not for everyone. The story line is difficult to say the least. A woman determined to kill herself and the mother (who loves her more than anyone else in this world) trying desperately to find a way to stop it from happening. If suicide is too distressing a subject for you, do not watch this film. If you are thinking of suicide, do not watch this film. It evidences how someone can convince themselves that this is the right choice (which it is not), but hopefully it also points to the fact that a suicide always deeply, adversely and irreversibly affects someone else in this world, even if it's just the person who finds the body (I know of which I speak). This movie may be boring for some, but only because of the film style. It is, as one reviewer said, like watching a play. It is almost what you might see if someone just took out a video camera and made a home movie of the lives of these two people in the last hours of Jesse's life. No interesting angles, effects, changes of venue, et. al. It's just the intense, "real-life" story of a desperate, helpless mother and her daughter who is all but gone. It is a dispairing and heartbreaking narrative for anyone with a heart.
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Summary: Superb and riveting performances!
Comment: I am usually very apprehensive to watch movie versions of theatre plays, and it is rare that a performance is pulled off to perfection. This was it! Superb performances, true to the dramatic plot, and complete with intensive moods required to pull it off. And, when I knew that two impressive actors would portray the characters, Sissy Spacek and Anne Bancroft as Thelma, the mother of Jessie, a young lady planning her suicide, carefully, strategically and nonchalantly. The story takes place in the home with just two people, and all in one night, within a matter of a couple of hours. There is no musical soundtrack to draw from the moods.
Pulitzer Prize by Marsha Norman 'Night Mother.
Marsha Norman won the Pulitzer Prize in 1983, and when I learned she did the Screenplay for the movie, I was more confident the performance would be first class. If you haven't read the book, do so, it is riveting, unlike something you may have read in drama.
A right to die
Jessie is divorced and has a juvenile son whose whereabouts are unknown. She caretakes for her mother, Thelma and has a brother Dawson and his family who live nearby. In her lifetime, Jessie has had epileptic seizures, her husband Cecil left her and she moved back with her mother. But it is this night, after plans to do her mother's manicure, that Jessie plans go to her bedroom and kill herself. It is her right, as she is tired, hurt, sad, and feels used. Throughout, you will learn of the past.
Stages of grief - for the living
In 1969, Dr. Elizabeth Kubler-Ross wrote the groundbreaking book, On Death and Dying and named the five stages of grief that people who are dying go through, and not in an exact order. The five stages are denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance. What we see is Thelma, going through these stages, denying that the suicide will happen, angry that she can't stop it, bargaining with Jessie to stay alive, depressed and down when she can't stop it and that little moment when Thelma accepts the inevitable.
This is an emotional, powerful film with exceptional performances....Marrianne Rizzuto
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Summary: Fantastic Movie!
Comment: This movie was very disturbing yet it was fantastic! This movie also looked into Mother-Daughter relationships. Have your tissue ready because this is a tear jerker!
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Summary: Compelling Psycho-drama
Comment: Who better than Sissy Spacek and Anne Bancroft to depict the doomed mother and daughter in this incredibly well-drawn drama? Without an ounce of special-effects, without even much of a change of scenery outside of maybe moving from the kitchen to the living room, these two reveal the nightmare of their lives and relationships interspersed with what would be humdrum details of laundry and grocery shopping if the dialogue itself weren't so increasingly, incredibly horrifying.
This movie drew me in from the very beginning, I could not tear myself away even though the details seemed so harmless at first glance. The longer the story goes on, the deeper the anguish.
I don't want to spoil it for you, no one spoiled it for me; so I won't go into the details. I can say there's no happy ending, and I cried...and yet, I understood.
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Summary: A Fine Film about a Hard Subject
Comment: I teach Education Profession in which I work with high school students who want to explore the teaching profession. When we studied barriers to learning, targeting grief and depression, we watched this video. 'Night, Mother captures the factual stages and characteristics very well. Afterwards my students (16-18 year olds) said they enjoyed it even though "it was sad." Suicide is sad, but in a society that believes in canned self-improvements is a credit card purchase away, `Night, Mother shows that the decision can derive from cold but intelligent self-reflection--money, self-improvement books, or time may have no effect. It addresses the dismal conclusion that some suicides cannot be prevented. The film begins after Jesse has made her decision and now wants to make her last evening with her mother a memorable one. I'm cheered that Jesse carefully evaluates her condition and situation before making the critical decision that she does and that she doesn't blame anyone. By her narrative she suggests the process of suicide that leaves that large--ever large and bold-faced--punctuation that ends a life can begin years before the actual event. Though the film makes viewers grapple with unanswerable questions, `Night, Mother is a powerful film that makes you want to read a play by Marsha Norman.
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