The read
Critics rate it 20 points higher than audiences do. It runs long at 2h 50m.
Synopsis
An Irish miser, his morphine addicted wife, their debauched older son, and a gravely ill younger son. A quiet Connecticut vacation home on one foggy day in August 1912 becomes the backdrop for domestic decline.
Ratings
IMDb7.5/10
Rotten Tomatoes95%
Critics rate it 20 points higher than audiences do.
81 audience votes
Key crew
- Sidney LumetDirector
- Eugene O'NeillWriter
Cast
- Katharine HepburnMary Tyrone
- Ralph RichardsonJames Tyrone Sr.
- Dean StockwellEdmund Tyrone
- Jason RobardsJamie Tyrone
- Jeanne BarrKathleen
Stills
Themes
isolationdrug addictionsanatoriumaddictionbased on play or musicaldysfunctional familyconnecticutalcoholismfamily relationshipsmorphineillnesssailor