Plantiana Yawn. Poorly Filmed Snooze Fest.

Ensofter Overrated and overhyped

Acensbart Excellent but underrated film

Billy Ollie Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

dukeakasmudge I wasn't all that interested in watching Run Stranger, Run -AKA- Happy Mother's Day, Love George at 1st.Knowing Ron Howard was in it, kinda had my curiosity but after seeing Darren McGavin was the director, I definitely had to watch it now.I was really expecting to at least like the movie but after watching it, I don't know what to think.The movie was weird.It starts out (kinda) normal, Ron Howard comes to town, looking for his birth mother in hopes of finding out who his father is.The cast of characters are weird.Everybody has something about them.The movie's vibe is weird & it gets weirder.Towards the end, it turns into a horror flick.Run Stranger, Run -AKA- Happy Mother's Day, Love George was a big, weird mess.I wouldn't recommend anybody watch it anytime soon.It's a movie that if you watch it, you watch it but if you don't then you don't.You're not missing anything at all.Damn, Darren McGavin I was hoping for something way better

Lee Eisenberg When I picked up the box and saw who the cast is (and who the director is), "Happy Mother's Day, Love George" (also called "Run Stranger Run") looked very interesting. It turned out to be a pretty hokey movie, with Ron Howard as a teenager given up for adoption looking for his father in a New England town. It was definitely interesting to see Howard play a role very unlike any of the ones for which he's known, and it's not a bad movie or anything, just kind of corny. Also starring are Patricia Neal's daughter Tessa (whom she had with Roald Dahl), and Simon Oakland (the psychiatrist at the end of "Psycho"). Yeah, who would've predicted the "Dream Lover" singer appearing in a thriller? Then again, who would've predicted his ex wife Sandra Dee starring in an adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft's book "The Dunwich Horror"?

Ripshin Following the previous year's "You'll Like My Mother," starring the equally All-American Richard Thomas, this film plays off the boyishness of the lead for added effect. The location filming is great, if only a bit tedious, and we are entertained by Patricia Neal's scenery-chewing. Cloris Leachman actually underplays her role. Bobby Darin is wasted as a throw-away supporting character.The plot is a bit interesting, although the killer's identity is telegraphed within the first fifteen minutes.Ron Howard is directed well by Darren McGavin, revealing that the former could have been a much more serious actor, but was instead saddled with the horrendous "Happy Days" series the next year. McGavin sandwiched this between the "The Night Stalker" TV movie in 72, and the subsequent series (as an actor, of course).Tessa Dahl is tolerable as the disturbed young woman.Worth a watch, but don't expect, well, "You'll Like My Mother."

chad478 Actor Darren McGavin made a stunning directorial debut with this suspenseful chiller about a series of gruesome murders in a small New England fishing village that end up having a bizarre connection to an adopted teen(Ron Howard) who is searching for his biological parents. The marvellous cast includes Cloris Leachman(as Howard's mother), Patricia Neal(as Howard's aunt), Bobby Darin, and Simon Oakland. The most memorable performance is given by Tessa Dahl, who not only plays Neal's daughter in the film, but is, in fact, her daughter in real life. Released to theatres as HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY, LOVE GEORGE, the film was retitled RUN, STRANGER, RUN for home video release.