'night, Mother

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'night, Mother ★★½ 1986 (PG-13)

A depressed woman, living with her mother, announces one evening that she is going to kill herself. Her mother spends the evening reliving their lives and trying to talk her out of it, but the outcome seems inevitable. Well acted, though depressing. Based on Marsha Norman's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. 97m/C VHS . Sissy Spacek, Anne Bancroft, Ed Berke, Carol Robbins, Jennifer Roosendahl; D: Tom (Thomas R.) Moore; W: Marsha Norman; M: David Shire.

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