Release Date

01 Dec, 1971

Runtime

01:16: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

Jay Follet is suffering a mid-life crisis while his wife, Mary, is expecting their second child. When Jay takes his family to visit his 103-year-old grandmother, he begins to realize that life is passing by too quickly. He turns more and more toward alcohol to escape from reality. When Jay doesn't come home one night, Mary learns that he was in an accident and waits anxiously for his return. Screen adaptation of Tad Mosel's 1960 Pulitzer Prize-winning play based on James Agee's Pulitzer Prize-winning autobiographical novel A Death in the Family.

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Actors

Joanne Woodward

Richard Kiley

Pat Hingle

Eileen Heckart

Barnard Hughes

Jane Mallett

James Woods

James O'Neill

Nan Stewart

Betty Garde

Kay Hawtrey

Jenny Laidle

Allan Clowes

Shane Nickerson

Crew

Fred Coe

Tad Mosel

James Agee

David Susskind

Duane Bogie

Alan Shayne

Arthur Rubinstein

Ben Edwards

Ann Roth

Barney Stewart