A mother wins 'Mother of the Year' — her kids show up to ruin everything. Delicious.
Three siblings return home when their mother wins a "Mother of the Year" award from a magazine.
Acting
Mildred Dunnock's brittle, desperate perfection
Direction
Schaffner's claustrophobic family tension before Patton
Production
Midcentury magazine culture as character
Director
Franklin J. Schaffner
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was Franklin J. Schaffner's feature debut before he won an Oscar for Patton. The man loved institutional pageantry.
Released during the height of 'togetherness' marketing, this quietly shredded the American family ideal that TV was selling. Mildred Dunnock had played Willy Loman's wife on Broadway — she knew hollow dreams.
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