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| 'Night, Mother (1986) |
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What would you do if someone you loved sat down with you one night and calmly
told you that they were going to end their life before morning? This is Thelma
Cates' dilemma. Her daughter, Jessie, has had it. A middle-aged epileptic unable
to hold a job, with a failed marriage and a drug-addicted son on the wrong side
of the law, Jessie can find no reason to go on living. Adapted from the play by
Marsha Norman, "'night, Mother" is the story of a parent's worst nightmare. How
can Thelma convince her daughter that life is worth living if she can't feel
her pain? How can she end her daughter's embrace of death before morning?
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