

01/12/1971
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.

Joanne Woodward
as Mary Follet

Richard Kiley
as Jay Follet

Pat Hingle
as Ralph Follet

Eileen Heckart
as Aunt Hannah Lynch

Barnard Hughes
as Joel Lynch

Jane Mallett
as Catherine Lynch

James Woods
as Andrew Lynch

James O'Neill
as John Henry Follet

Nan Stewart
as Jessie Follet

Betty Garde
as Aunt Sadie Follet

Kay Hawtrey
as Sally Follet

Jenny Laidle
as Great-Great Grandma Follet

Allan Clowes
as Father Jackson

Shane Nickerson
as Rufus Follet
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