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Long Day's Journey into Night

2026 · 109 min

A slow, suffocating day of family recrimination, where every line lands like a wound and the air never clears.

Directed by: Jonathan Kent
Genres: Drama
Starring: Jessica Lange, Ed Harris, Ben Foster

Overview: Over the course of a day, a married couple, Mary and James Tyrone, and their two sons, Jamie and Edmund, grapple with Mary's morphine addiction and confront each other over the past in a series of emotionally tense and volatile exchanges.

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Directed by: Jonathan Kent
Genres: Drama
Starring: Jessica Lange, Ed Harris, Ben Foster

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Tone: darkstrength 3 of 3
melancholicstrength 3 of 3
tensestrength 3 of 3
earneststrength 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
grief
guilt
betrayal
Places: single country house
Era: period
Audience: adult
Form: single location
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence none
Sex mild

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Humour	1
Realism	9
Romance	2
Tension	7
Darkness	8
Complexity	6
Emotional weight	9

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Genres: drama
Directed by: Jonathan Kent
Written by: David Lindsay-Abaire
Starring: Jessica Lange, Ed Harris, Ben Foster, Colin Morgan, Ericka Roe, Derek Carroll, Lesa Thurman
Cinematography: Mark Wolf
Runtime: 109 min
Country: United Kingdom, Cyprus
Languages: English

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