Long Day's Journey Into Night (1962)

Long Day's Journey Into Night is a 1962 drama film based on Eugene O'Neill's 1956 play of the same name. The film won Best Actor and Best Actress at the Cannes Film Festival and was selected one of the Top Ten Films of 1962 by the National Board of Review.

The plot follows the family of retired actor James Tyrone who struggles with his wife Mary's opiate addiction, their youngest son Edmund's sickness, and their elder son Jamie's alcoholism and debauchery. Guilt, anger, sorrow, and regret threaten to ruin the family from day to night. Hepburn earned her eleventh Oscar nomination for her masterly performance, in which she showed helpless reliance and strangling claustrophobia opposite Ralph Richardson and Jason Robards in a family breaking itself apart.

Detailed Information:
Directed by: Sidney Lumet
Starring: Katharine Hepburn, Ralph Richardson, Jason Robards, Dean Stockwell
Release dates; May 1962 (Cannes Film Festival)/October 10, 1962 (New York City)
Running time: 174 minutes170 minutes(TCM Print)