17 Mar 1999
Director: Jerry Zaks
USA
1996
98 min
Estranged since their father’s first stroke some 17 years earlier, Lee (Meryl Streep) and Bessie (Diane Keaton) lead separate lives in separate states. Lee’s son, Hank (Leonardo DiCaprio), finds himself committed to a mental institution after setting fire to his mother’s house. Marvin, the two women’s bedridden father, has “been dying for the past twenty years”. Bessie discovers that she has leukaemia and will die without a bone marrow transplant.