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Long Day’s Journey Into Night (1973) Plot Summary Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 1973 · 161 mins · English
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- Directed by
- Peter Wood
- Starring
- Laurence Olivier, Ronald Pickup, Denis Quilley, Maureen Lipman, Constance Cummings
In the heat of a single summer day in 1912, retired stage star James Tyrone watches his family unravel: his wife Mary battles a morphine habit, his youngest son Edmund suffers a serious illness, and his older son Jamie falls into alcoholism and debauchery. As daylight fades, guilt, anger, despair and regret swirl, threatening to tear the Tyrone household apart.
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