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Long Day's Journey into Night is a 1962 American drama film directed by Sidney Lumet, adapted from Eugene O'Neill's Pulitzer-winning play of the same name. It stars Katharine Hepburn, Ralph Richardson, Jason Robards, and Dean Stockwell.
Long Day's Journey Into Night: Directed by Sidney Lumet. With Katharine Hepburn, Ralph Richardson, Jason Robards, Dean Stockwell. At the end of a long and hot summer day, members of one family gather in a large house. Everyone has something painful and offensive to say, and their silence is even worse.
Based on the autobiographical play by Eugene O'Neill, Long Day's Journey Into Night (1962) is an intense, harrowing look at a troubled family. Father James Tyrone, an actor living on past glories, is a tightwad; the mother is a drug addict; one son is a cynical failed actor and alcoholic, the other a tubercular writer.
Jeanne Barr. Kathleen. Watchlist. In Theaters At Home TV Shows. A quiet Connecticut vacation home is the backdrop for domestic decline. Sensitive son Edmund (Dean Stockwell) returns home from...
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1962-03-28. Usage. Public Domain Mark 1.0. Topics. classic drama, Katherine Hepburn, Ralph Richardson, Jason Robard, classic film, theater. Language. English. A slice of life filled with regret, recrimination, drugs alcohol and despair written by the greatest American playwright about his family. Addeddate. 2016-03-27 22:53:21. Identifier.
The film spends one day and night with the dysfunctional Tyrone family. Mary Tyrone is an unstable mother addicted in morphine that recalls moments of her life in the past to escape from her reality. The Irish patriarch James Tyrone is a cheap and alcoholic man and former successful actor.
Synopsis. Over the course of one foggy day in August 1912, a retired Irish theater actor grapples with the morphine addiction of his unbalanced wife, debauchery of his older son, and sickness of the youngest son as past guilts, repressed anger, and deep-seated regrets slowly come boiling out, threatening to destroy the family.
