Eunice

Bittersweet sketch-comedy characters stretched into a quiet, rueful portrait of a woman watching her chances slip away.

Directed by

Harvey Korman, Roger Beatty

Genres

Tv movie, Comedy

Starring

Carol Burnett, Vicki Lawrence, Ken Berry

Overview

Moments in four different years in the lives of the Harper family beginning with 1955 as a hopeful Eunice prepares to go to a party, and her brother Phillip, a recent college graduate, departs for New York. In 1963, a married Eunice and her husband, Ed Higgins, help Mama welcome novelist Phillip home for a visit. In 1973, a divorced Eunice is living with Mama. In 1978, Eunice, Ellen, and Phillip return from Mama's funeral and Eunice makes a painful realization about her life.

How it feels

Melancholic, warm, earnest and satirical. Measured and needs your attention.

About

Family, identity, ambition, grief

Content

Mild sexual content and language. No violence or gore.

Note

Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown

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