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.
Directed by Fred Coe
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Cast
Joanne Woodward
Mary Follet
Richard Kiley
Jay Follet
Pat Hingle
Ralph Follet
Eileen Heckart
Aunt Hannah Lynch
Barnard Hughes
Joel Lynch
Jane Mallett
Catherine Lynch
James Woods
Andrew Lynch
James O'Neill
John Henry Follet
Nan Stewart
Jessie Follet
Betty Garde
Aunt Sadie Follet
Kay Hawtrey
Sally Follet
Jenny Laidle
Great-Great Grandma Follet
Allan Clowes
Father Jackson
Shane Nickerson
Rufus Follet
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