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Long Day's Journey Into Night

1962 · 170 min

A slow, suffocating immersion into a family's unraveling, carried by towering performances and dialogue that cuts like a knife.

Overview
An Irish miser, his morphine addicted wife, their debauched older son, and a gravely ill younger son. A quiet Connecticut vacation home on one foggy day in August 1912 becomes the backdrop for domestic decline.

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Tone
  • bleakstrength 3 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 3 of 3
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • darkstrength 2 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • addiction
  • family
  • isolation
  • guilt
  • betrayal
Places
  • single country house
Era
period
Audience
adult
Form
  • single location
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence none
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action0
Horror1
Humour2
Realism8
Romance1
Tension7
Darkness9
Complexity7
Emotional weight10

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Details

Genres
drama
Directed by
Sidney Lumet
Written by
Eugene O'Neill
Starring
Katharine Hepburn, Ralph Richardson, Dean Stockwell, Jason Robards, Jeanne Barr
Cinematography
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Runtime
170 min
Country
United States of America
Languages
English

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