'night, Mother (film)

1986 American drama film directed by Tom Moore the stage play on which the film is based 'night, Mother February 2026 January 2025 'night, Mother 'nightMotherFilmPoster.jpg Film poster Tom Moore Aaron SpellingAlan Greisman Marsha Norman 'night, Mother Marsha Norman Sissy Spacek Anne Bancroft David Shire Stephen M. Katz Suzanne Pettit Aaron Spelling Productions Universal Pictures 1986 9 12 96 minutes United States English $3 millionhttps://catalog.afi.com/Film/57421-NIGHT-MOTHER AFI|Catalog $441,863 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.https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-production/night-mother-4214 'night, Mother 2019-01-14 2019-07-24 https://web.archive.org/web/20190724223523/https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-production/night-mother-4214 dead http://www.berlinale.de/en/archiv/jahresarchive/1987/02_programm_1987/02_Programm_1987.html Berlinale: 1987 Programme 2011-02-27 berlinale.de https://web.archive.org/web/20101228074612/http://www.berlinale.de/en/archiv/jahresarchive/1987/02_programm_1987/02_Programm_1987.html 28 December 2010 live Plot Jessie is a middle-aged woman living with her widowed mother, Thelma. One night, Jessie calmly tells her mother that she plans to commit suicide that very evening. Jessie makes this revelation all while nonchalantly organizing household items and preparing to do her mother's nails. The resulting intense conversation between Jessie and Thelma reveals Jessie's reasons for her decision and how thoroughly she has planned her own death, culminating in a disturbing yet unavoidable climax. Cast Sissy Spacek as Jessie Cates Anne Bancroft as Thelma Cates Ed Berke as Dawson Cates Carol Robbins as Loretta Cates Jennifer Roosendahl as Melodie Cates Michael Kenworthy as Kenny Cates Sari Walker as Agnes Fletcher Claire Malis as Operator (voice) Release night, Mother was released theatrically on September 12, 1986. The film received mixed reviews, and Bancroft was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama. Spacek was nominated for the Academy Award that year for Crimes of the Heart, another film adaptation of a play, released the same year.Janet Maslin Janet Maslin FILM: SISSY SPACEK IN NIGHT, MOTHER The New York Times September 12, 1986 https://www.nytimes.com/1986/09/12/movies/film-sissy-spacek-in-night-mother.html November 23, 2016 The film was given its first-ever U.S. DVD release, by Universal Studios on August 3, 2010. References External links 0090556 'night, Mother night_mother nightmother Category:1986 films Category:1986 drama films Category:American drama films Category:1986 English-language films Category:American films based on plays Category:Films about suicide Category:Films directed by Tom Moore Category:Universal Pictures films Category:Films about conversations Category:Films scored by David Shire Category:Films about mother–daughter relationships Category:1986 American films Category:English-language drama films