'night, Mother

Based on Marsha Norman's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, it's almost a textbook example of how not to bring Broadway to the screen.

While the film is emotionally wrenching, it never becomes an exercise in masochism.

...a decent-enough adaptation that generally works best as a showcase for the thoroughly engrossing efforts of its two stars.

A sobering overwrought drama based on Marsha Norman's Pulitzer Prize-winning play.