Missing/'Night Mother
by Tom Moore (II), Costa-Gavras
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Actor: Anne Bancroft, Carol Robbins, Ed Berke, Jennifer Roosendahl, Sissy SpacekDirector: Costa-Gavras, Tom Moore (II)
Edition: VHS Tape
Audio: English (Original Language), Analog; Spanish (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, NTSC
Running Time: 219 minutes
Release Date: 2000-08-29
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Publisher: Universal Home Video
Studio: Universal Home Video
VHS Movie Reviews of Missing/'Night Mother
Movie Review: Anne Bancroft and Sissy Spacek's Performances
Summary: 5 Stars
This movie is one of the best movies I have seen in a long time!! Sissy Spacek's portrayal of Jessie Cates is what draws you into the movie. She play this character with the intensity and frustration that Jessie has when she decides to commit suicide. Anne Bancroft as Thelma, Jessie's mother, gives this character the needed sensitive and love that a mother would show when she is told by her daughter that she wants to commit suicide. I recommend that everyone that has ever thought about suicide or who knows someone that is going through a tough time should sit down and seriously pay attention to this movie!! It might change your mind and someone else's about suicide. This shows what a person goes through when she or he thinks about suicide and what a parent goes through when she or he try to stop their child from committing suicide. I give this movie two thumbs up and five stars!!!Movie Review: In one way or another, she suffers
Summary: 5 Stars
This double feature brings two of the most powerful characters Sissy Spacek has ever played. In "Missing" she portrays Beth Horman, wife of a journalist missing in a Latin-American country during the dark years of the repression against Communism, with the unacceptable silence of the United States. I mean the word "unacceptable" because thousands of people died in the name of democracy. Instead, we saw bloody dictators killing thousands of people, violating all the human rights and, the worst of all, blessed by American governors . This film courageously deal with this delicate matter. However, the great performance of this video package will be seen in "Night, mother". Sissy Spacek plays Jessie Cates, a disappointed woman who decides to say goodbye to life in a very odd manner. Step by step, she organizes everything - clothes, food, even how to load the gun - and explains all to her mother, who falls in desperation. It's an announced tragedy. More than that, it's a duel of personalities: on one side, a daughter decided to comite suicide using strong and sometimes undisputable arguments. On the other, a mother trying to dissuade her, appealing to God: "You'll go to hell just for saying that, Jesse. It's a sin". In all senses, Sissy Spacek's characters suffer a long and consuming pain. For us, there is no alternative but follow her drama until the very end.
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