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.
Jessie Cates, played by Sissy Spacek, is a middle-aged, epileptic living with her mother. She has had a traumatic, divorce in her past and a wayward son headed for prison. Due to her illness, she can't drive or hold down a job and has no hopes that anything will get better for her. Jessie, has after years of contemplating suicide, finally picked the night to do it. She has organized her personal belongings and put everything in order. Now, all she has to do is tell her mother.
Anne Bancroft, plays Jessie's mother, the blissfully ignorant, Thelma Cates. Who by her own description, is "a plain, old, country woman" who "just really doesn't think there's all that much to things". She is caught totally off guard when her daughter tells her, she is planning to kill herself that night. Momma Cates is so blatantly unaware that her daughter is unhappy that she even tells her where the gun is before asking why.
The subject matter and the way it's presented is so thought provoking that one doesn't even take notice of the fact that almost this entire movie consists of basically only two actresses.
I highly recommend this movie, just don't expect a happy ending.
- ebonyaprildd
- Jul 4, 2006
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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