A mother and daughter spend a night together after the daughter reveals that she will kill herself by the end of it.A mother and daughter spend a night together after the daughter reveals that she will kill herself by the end of it.A mother and daughter spend a night together after the daughter reveals that she will kill herself by the end of it.
- Awards
- 2 nominations
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaWhen asked by a Hollywood columnist if she was upset she didn't receive an Oscar (Academy Award) nomination for her performance, Anne Bancroft quipped, "I should have gotten an Oscar just for memorizing all those lines." Bancroft though however for this film was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama.
- Quotes
Jessie: Mama, I know you used to ride the bus. Riding the bus, and it's hot and bumpy and crowded and too noisy, and more than anything else in the world, you wanna get off. And the only reason in the world you don't get off is it's still fifty blocks from where you're going. Well, I can get off right now if I want to. Because even if I ride fifty more years and get off then, it's still the same place when I step down to it. Whenever I feel like it, I can get off. Whenever I've had enough, it's my stop. I've had enough.
This movie is extremely well written. The fact that it infuriated me, in this instance is not a put-down. I believe this script was designed to do so. It's infuriating because Ms. Spacek's character is so hell-bent on her intentions that nothing but nothing is going to change her mind. Ms. Bancroft's character's job is to try and stop Spacek from reaching this particular goal she's set, at any cost. This script is a good case study into the mind-set of people who are suffering from extreme depression and the skewed decisions that they might make while in the midst of that depression.
I would highly recommend this film, with the understanding that it is not your light, airy, happy-ending movie. If you're looking for one of those don't bother with this one.
- Iammymothersdaughter2
- Oct 12, 2001
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Details
Box office
- Budget
- $3,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $441,863
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $49,164
- Sep 14, 1986
- Gross worldwide
- $441,863