Long Day's Journey Into Night

Name: Long Day's Journey Into Night
Genre: Drama
Released: 1987-04-13
Duration: 2 h 50 min
Rating: 7.2
Cast: Jack Lemmon, Bethel Leslie, Peter Gallagher

TV Movie
1987
Not Rated
2h 50m

IMDb RATING

7.2/10

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Kevin Spacey, Jack Lemmon, Peter Gallagher, and Bethel Leslie in Long Day's Journey Into Night (1987)

Drama

Eugene O'Neill's award-winning and classic play about a day in the life of a dysfunctional family controlled by their addictions gets a staged version made for TV. Past, present, and future ... Read allEugene O'Neill's award-winning and classic play about a day in the life of a dysfunctional family controlled by their addictions gets a staged version made for TV. Past, present, and future discussions about life, human relations, and family problems are all discussed by the Tyro... Read allEugene O'Neill's award-winning and classic play about a day in the life of a dysfunctional family controlled by their addictions gets a staged version made for TV. Past, present, and future discussions about life, human relations, and family problems are all discussed by the Tyrone family from the early hours in the morning up until the final minutes of the night, rev... Read all

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IMDb RATING

7.2/10

286

YOUR RATING

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Awards
- 4 nominations

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Trivia
Peter Gallagher and Kevin Spacey play brothers here; in American Beauty (1999) they play rivals competing for the same woman.

Connections
Featured in AFI Life Achievement Award: AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Jack Lemmon (1988)

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Review

Featured review

7/10

Brilliant trio of performances - nix Lemmon

Where were the Emmys? Out to lunch? Obviously, for their shameful, almost criminal lack of nominations for three of these actors.

Gallagher and Spacey are beyond brilliant- young, vital, totally in character, superb is a word that is not good enough.

Leslie is visually a combo of Judi Dench (God, wouldn't one die for a Mary Tyrone from her!) and Hepburn, but she makes the part her own. Another brilliant performance.

The only fly in the ointment is Lemmon - his performance is full of Lemmon-ses! Stock vocal and physical posturing that has become his trademark acting ability. He is abominably bad. Unlike the others, he doesn't even try to become Tyrone, he just filters the character through his stock mannerisms. Shame on him.

Still, you must see this for the brilliance of the other three actors.