A mother struggles with worsening bipolar disorder and the effects that managing her illness has on her family. The PBS Great Performances recording of the West End Transfer (from Donmar Warehouse) in 2024.
Casts Caissie Levy, Jamie Parker, Jack Wolfe, Eleanor Worthington-Cox, Trevor Dion Nicholas, Jack Ofrecio
MOVIE COMMENTS
SIMILAR MOVIES
Story of a Cloistered Nun
National Theatre Live: Life of Pi
Escape and Evasion
The Good Man from Szechuan
Evening Primrose
The Love Eterne
Král Ubu
Somnambulists
Milagros
Mother's Day
Swimming in a Sand Pool
The Catered Affair
Maior que o Mundo
The Seagull
Lord Byron of Broadway
Tin Pan Alley
For the First Time
Forty Little Mothers
Cyrano de Bergerac
Private Worlds
SIMILAR MOVIES
Story of a Cloistered Nun
IMDB 5.3 | Nov , 1973
Refusing an arranged marriage, young aristocrat Carmela is sent to a convent. Her arrival intensifies the power struggle between the debauched nun Elizabeth and the stern Mother Superior, as both are smitten by Carmela's beauty.National Theatre Live: Life of Pi
IMDB 0 | Mar , 2023
Puppetry, magic and storytelling combine in a unique, Olivier Award-winning stage adaptation of the best-selling novel. After a cargo ship sinks in the middle of the vast Pacific Ocean, a 16-year-old boy named Pi is stranded on a lifeboat with four other survivors – a hyena, a zebra, an orangutan and a Royal Bengal tiger. Filmed live in London’s West End and featuring state-of-the-art visuals, the epic journey of endurance and hope is bought to life in a breath-taking new way for cinemas screens.Escape and Evasion
IMDB 6.1 | Oct , 2019
After his men are killed in Burma, a lone soldier returns home in search of solace. Hiding a dark secret and confronted by an unrelenting journalist, he's forced to face the ghosts of his past one last time.The Good Man from Szechuan
IMDB 0 | Apr , 2020
In the search for a single good person in the province of Sezuan, three gods finally find only poor street girl Shen Te, whom they reward with a large gift of money. Now wealthy, Shen Te is now so exploited by all men that she has no choice but to slip into the shoes of her hard-hearted cousin, Shui Ta. Accused of murdering the missing Shen Te, the supposed Shui Ta confesses his dual role and the gods avoid a conviction. But Shen Te aka Shui Ta is now abandoned by all humans and also by the gods – helpless in the world.Evening Primrose
IMDB 7.5 | Nov , 1966
A man becomes part of a secret society of people who live in a department store and quickly falls in love with their leader’s young maid.The Love Eterne
IMDB 7 | Apr , 1963
In this dreamy romance set in China during the fourth-century, a young woman convinces her parents to allow her to dress as a boy and attend university.Král Ubu
IMDB 7.8 | Oct , 1996
A cruel picture of the ways in which human beings acquire power and then cling to it. The story of Father Ubu, an idiot who climbs over the bodies of the dead to his royal post, is presented with a touch of the grotesque where naive comic elements meet black humor. Using a human touch, the film- makers were able to transform the original into a film aimed at a contemporary audience while remaining faithful to the vision of Father Ubu and Mother Ubu venturing everything in their efforts to seize power and mammon.Somnambulists
IMDB 5.1 | Sep , 1978
Ana works side by side with her mother Maria Rosa in the fight to save the anti-Franco militants from the death penalty during the process of Burgos. Ana's mother is a former actress and Ana, her mother and a few other actors prepare an act of protest in the theater where an international festival on Strinberg is being held. But there are more things in Ana's life. The mother lives with her uncle, the brother of his father, Norman, an old doctor of devious methods. Helped by Fatima, an old nurse who loves her father, the doctor will try to experiment with Ana's ideas and feelings as wellMilagros
IMDB 3 | Apr , 1997
Milagros is a prostitute who becomes the maid of a family of four men. With them, she finds the family she never had. With her, each man finds the salvation he needs. Together, they begin to tear each other apart.Mother's Day
IMDB 10 | Jun , 2021
Jordon (Michael Charles Wagner) reconnects with mother Wendy (Lisa Ludwig), in the midst of a mental health crisis, over the course of an afternoon in Travis Carlson’s innovative, award-winning Western New York-lensed feature.Swimming in a Sand Pool
IMDB 6.8 | May , 2024
It's summer vacation, but two high schoolers have been instructed to clean the (empty) swimming pool. As they sweep the pool, they initially discuss school life, love and makeup. But it isn't long before their worries begin to overflow and their thoughts intersect.The Catered Affair
IMDB 7.2 | Jun , 1956
An Irish cabby in the Bronx watches his wife go overboard planning their daughter's wedding.Maior que o Mundo
IMDB 4.8 | Aug , 2022
The Seagull
IMDB 5.4 | May , 2018
At a picturesque lakeside estate, a love triangle unfolds between the legendary diva Irina, her lover Boris, and the ingénue Nina.Lord Byron of Broadway
IMDB 4.6 | Feb , 1930
A talented songwriter gets his inspiration for songs from others and not from within himself. He is oblivious that he may harm other people when he uses their stories or their love for himself.Tin Pan Alley
IMDB 5.4 | Nov , 1940
Songwriters Calhoun and Harrigan get Katie and Lily Blane to introduce a new one. Lily goes to England, and Katy joins her after the boys give a new song to Nora Bayes. All are reunited when the boys, now in the army, show up in England.For the First Time
IMDB 6.4 | Feb , 1959
In this musical, a tempermental opera singer falls in love with a hearing-impaired young woman.Forty Little Mothers
IMDB 6.5 | Apr , 1940
An out-of-work professor gets a break from an old college buddy to teach at an exclusive girl's school. But events conspire against him: he finds an abandoned child which he takes under his wing, despite the school's rules against teachers having a family; and the girls in the school resent his replacing a handsome and popular teacher, and do everything in their power to get him fired.Cyrano de Bergerac
IMDB 7 | Jun , 2017
Cyrano has a prominent nose but also a gift with words by which he helps handsome Christian to conquer Roxane. Also in love with the girl he chooses not to reveal to her that every word of Christian comes out of his own heart. In cinema, this ROSTAND classic filmed live from the Comédie Française.Private Worlds
IMDB 6.4 | Apr , 1935
At the Brentwood Asylum for the mentally ill, psychiatrist partners Jane Everest and Alex MacGregor are broken up by the new superintendent, Dr. Charles Monet, who has a low regard for women physicians. Jane and Charles clash on patient treatment, and Jane learns that Charles has a sister, Claire, with a mysterious past.