Word: motheral
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Good Mother...
...hadn't cried at a film since Gone With the Wind, but Leonard Nimoy's The Good Mother brought genuine tears to my eyes. This dramatic and often humorous film manages to duplicate the emotions, the trials and the daily routines of "real life" with a poignancy unmatched by most movies...
...Good Mother, Nimoy takes a giant step away from the sitcom humor of his last baby movie (Three Men and a Baby). This one is an intense emotional film that establishes Nimoy as a director capable of causing visceral reactions in his audience...
...aging father and mother who seem drawn from a New Yorker cartoon are hectoring their middle-aged playwright son about the "need" for less of his satirical japery and for more plays of the kind they used to enjoy -- elegant talk, beautiful clothes, faintly risque hints of extramarital indiscretion. They want entertainment to affirm life, not scrutinize it. Having sampled truth, they prefer illusion. Atop the coffee table, looking innocuous yet posing a threat so potent that a grown daughter claims to hear it "ticking," is yet another of the son's kind of play. This one is overtly about...
...deft, unobtrusive staging of the original production at San Diego's Old Globe Theater, where he is artistic director, and has retained a splendid company: Bruce Davison as the playwright, Holland Taylor as his discontented sister, Keene Curtis as their fussy paterfamilias and Emmy winner Nancy Marchand as the mother. Puffing up her husband, belittling her offspring, getting slowly sozzled with "just a splash" -- a command she never barks the same way twice -- Marchand at first appears silly and superficial. Like the play, she turns out to have surprising depths...