Drama

Mother's Day

Accepting the potentialities of the medium to manipulate both time and space, Broughton brings past and present head-on as he regards with adult feelings his childhood family and friends. Grown-ups romp like children, and by their magnified infantilism playfully underscore such basic traits as sadism, sensuality, arid egocentricity. (Melbourne International Film Festival)

Release Date : 1948-08-27

Language :No Language

Adult : false

Status : Released

Production Company : Farallone Films

Production Country : United States of America

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Cast

Character Name :

Original Name : Marion Cunningham

Gender : Female

Character Name :

Original Name : Donald Pidgeon

Gender : Male

Character Name :

Original Name : Hal Goldman

Gender : Male

Character Name :

Original Name : Donald Nelson

Gender : Male

Character Name :

Original Name : Betty Lee Balder

Gender : Male

Character Name :

Original Name : Elaine Mitchell

Gender : Male

Character Name :

Original Name : Marion Farquhar

Gender : Male

Character Name :

Original Name : Jack W. Stauffacher

Gender : Male

Character Name :

Original Name : Bill Brewer

Gender : Male

Character Name :

Original Name : Louis Tyford

Gender : Male

Character Name :

Original Name : Robert Heid

Gender : Male

Character Name :

Original Name : Lee Mullican

Gender : Male

Character Name :

Original Name : Chris Rambo

Gender : Male

Character Name :

Original Name : Stanley Young

Gender : Male

Character Name :

Original Name : Dean Sandhagen

Gender : Male

Character Name :

Original Name : John Rucker

Gender : Male

Reviews

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@Geronimo1967

2025-01-07

"Mother was the loveliest woman in the world". "Mother wanted everything to be lovely". Using a series of embryonic lighting techniques, a lively piano-based score and a series of not altogether coherent mini-sketches, we are presented with what appear to be memories of a couple, of them falling in love, of her widowhood and then more courting. She looks lovingly from her window, pining for what she had, what she wants? She's even offered a bribe in the form of some stockings! It's impossible to say just what this is about in any traditional sense, and it's a surprisingly pace-free affair for the most of it's rather abstract existence which appears to emanate from the naive and/or innocent mind of our unspoken narrator. Toys feature quite heavily as props and at times that's quite effective, as is some of the almost temperamental action from time to time, but it's all too surreal for me, sorry.