Innovative drama mixing film and video, with a teenager obsessed with watching his late mother, killed in an auto accident, on tapes he recorded of their daily lives. The mother is seen in extreme close-up only on tape.
Direction
Peter Horton's formal gimmick that actually serves the story.
Cinematography
Extreme close-ups so tight they become abstract, then devastating.
Director
Peter Horton
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Peter Horton directed this between thirtysomething episodes; ABC buried it as a TV movie after mixed test screenings.
Prefigured our entire era of phone-filmed grief and digital corpse-preservation—this 1990 kid was just early to the hell we all live in now.
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