Matcollis This Movie Can Only Be Described With One Word.

BootDigest Such a frustrating disappointment

RipDelight This is a tender, generous movie that likes its characters and presents them as real people, full of flaws and strengths.

AshUnow This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

museumofdave An incomparable acting quartet plays in this dark, brooding family drama, each actor showcasing a cinematic solo or two during the long film; when you read reviews from the initial release of this film, there was a concern whether or not this was merely a filmed play from the stage or a distinctive work of cinema--since this is doubtless the best filmed work of what is probably Eugene O'Neill's best and most deeply felt play, the argument hardly matters. Almost any reviewer of the drama will focus on the performance that moves them individually, often ignoring Dean Stockwell's grounded, more modern performance. Both Hepburn and Richardson have had considerable stage experience, trained not in method but technique, and both are masters--to watch Hepburn as a caring mother done in by drug addiction is amazing, particularly during a nostalgic rhapsody about her girlhood when the woman becomes a girl caught up in her first real romance; to watch Ralph Richardson recall his own turn as a famous Shakespearian actor endorsed by an even greater actor, to experience him chart his fall from greatness is to experience an ancient skill almost lost in the method acting of today. This is a long, demanding film which pays back immense rewards if you are willing to immerse yourself for three hours of undivided close attention.

T Y Having discovered O'Neills Mourning Becomes Electra a few months ago, I was interested in viewing this. Long Day just doesn't work in this era, because it's idea of drama is so limited; O'Neill shoe-horns dialogue/conversation into every opening. These characters have logorrhea. They talk everything out, then they break up into smaller groups and talk it out some more, then they move on to other groupings and talk it out some more, finally, as a finale, they talk it out some more. Words, words, words, words, words, words... After 30 minutes, you understand the psycho-dynamics and there's no real point in paying attention anymore. At one point this was controversial stuff, but any man on the street is now extremely familiar with the addictive personality and its resultant enabling, bullying & emotional manipulation. This family's problems are nor compelling. The movie is clearly going nowhere. In every scene they push each other buttons, and say awful things to each other; outbursts of no particular importance arrive about every 8 minutes.Mourning Becomes Electra has somewhere to go, and revelations that matter to the story. LDJiN hashes and rehashes the same points over and over. MBE is even more stagy and dated, but it has some actual shocks to deliver. Hepburn acting 'overwrought' is too familiar from her success. Her hop-head is hysterically inaccurate. She just comes downstairs cheerful and chatty after shooting up. Richardson is by far the worst here; a charter member of the British elocution club. He has an inexpressive stone face, with no perceptible emotional range.Strictly for people convinced that a string of outbursts is the height of drama. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf is it's spiritual sibling (and also a slog to watch!). But The Little Foxes is more acid, with superior structure.

Maddyclassicfilms Long Days Journey Into Night is directed by Sidney Lumet, is written by Eugene O'Neill and is based upon his play. The film stars Jason Robards, Katharine Hepburn, Dean Stockwell and Ralph Richardson.This is the story of how one upper class family slowly falls apart. Catholic convent educated Mary Tyrone(Katharine Hepburn)is the long suffering wife of cold,mean and miserable James Tyrone(Ralph Richardson).His obsession with keeping a tight fist around the families cash has caused more misery and tragedy than they can cope with.Mary for many years has been a drug addict and one summers afternoon she takes up the habit again unable to cope with news of her youngest sons illness.The youngest members of the family are alcoholic and strong willed poet Jamie(Jason Robards)and the young brother he adores Edmund(Dean Stockwell).Edmund has caught consumption and is gravely ill,he Jamie and his father try and hide it from Mary but she suspects and just can't handle it.Jamie argues with his father over his reluctance to send Edmund to the best doctors due to his watching the money so carefully.After getting a grave consultation and being ordered to a sanatorium the men arrive home to more pain than they can deal with and as afternoon turns into night hatred,fear,declarations of love and anger are revealed as they struggle to cope with or ease the pain of their situation.The relationship between Jamie and Edmund is the highlight of the film, Jamie's two great loves in life are booze and Edmund,who is the one thing in life that keeps him human and allows him moments of being nice and normal.However he resents him due to the fact his difficult birth started their mothers long use of drugs.The scene where he explains all this to Edmund is heartbreaking and electrifying and Jason gives such an intense and haunted performance that it's a shame he didn't win an award.Perhaps a little too theatrical at times(Ralph certainly is)it all adds to the riveting effect of the film as you are dragged into this battleground with this damaged group of people.Also starring Jeanne Barr as their young maid Kathleen,Long Days Journey Into Night will move and grip you in equal measure and features some career best performances,without a doubt this is a must see.

dataconflossmoor This movie is a compelling illustration of the dark human emotions that afflicted famous author, Eugene O'Neal!! "Long Day's Journey Into Night" is an account of the somber trenches that reflects Eugene O'Neal's life when he was growing up!! Eugene O'Neal writes this wonderful work of art, and "Long Day's Journey Into Night" became the recipient of a Tony award!! This dramatic query of Eugene O'Neal's life evokes a bevy of stellar accomplishments which became an auspicious mark of theatrical excellence!! This intellectually spellbinding stage play was later made into a major motion picture!! Famous director, Sydney Lumet, (Most famous for "Network") directs this masterpiece, and convincingly asserts an intentionally dreary aura of sadness and miserly despondence which author, Eugene O'Neal, articulated with such a succinct accountability!! The acting is uncompromising, basically second to none: This movie stars; Katherine Hepburn, Ralph Richardson, Jason Robards, and Dean Stockwell!! All of the characters in this movie have been victimized by one form of abuse after the next!! The father, being an Irish immigrant in the late 1800's, grew up his whole life having been labeled a non-refined American.... Regardless of money, the Tyrones were categorized as shanty Irish!! The older brother, (Jason Robards) was a disgruntled drunk who drummed up all kinds of excuses for his resounding failure as an adult!! The Mother (Katherine Hepburn) was a drug addict, her love for her family was ossified and obtuse by the demeanor with which it was expedited... Her family's problems were always seen through rose colored glasses!! The youngest son, (aka) Eugene O'Neal, (Played by Dean Stockwell) was the misunderstood underling who became plagued with consumption... The intensity of emotions in this movie were incredible... The entire family was keenly aware of all of their adversities which were dragging them down (i.e. alcohol, penuriousness, sleeping pills and morphine, and consumption) and yet, they also knew that they were not strong enough to overcome them... The psychological perspectives that the Tyrone family got relegated to were accurately portrayed in terms of the realistic cynicism which inevitably ensued with their lives!! If the situation changes, it will only change for the worse!! The pitfall of human despair prevailed as an ugly adversary that decimated virtually every one of the Tyrones.... For Eugene O'Neal, the petty consolation prize for having such a dark and ugly citadel of unhappiness for a home life, was that he became a marvelous writer... The Tyrone family's attitudes and feelings were desperately real, they mirrored the sorry end result which was caused by the unfortunate decisions that all of these four people made!! These decisions gridlocked each and every one of them, and manufactured a genre of arctic desolation which centralized their aggregate misery right down to the core of a dreadfully genuine ideological doom!! These feelings manifested a crystal clear conceptualization of hopelessness that the Tyrone family was perennially burdened with!! I thought "Long Day's Journey Into Night" was one of the best movies I have ever seen.. The acting, the directing, and the writing, were all by the best in the business... Cerebral torment is not always pleasant to witness, but, the authenticity of such a fate is empathetically indulged with a pejorative passion in this film!! The motif of rivalry and bitterness in "Long Day's Journey Into Night" is depressing with a capital D, then again, that was the movie's intention... Having explained that, it is extremely safe to say that "Long Days Journey Into Night" is a film which is; AN ABSOLUTELY EXCELLENT ONE!!!!