'night, Mother

Summary: Mother and daughter Thelma and Jessie Cates spend a night together after Jessie reveals that she will kill herself by the end of it in this cinema adaptation of Marsha Norman's Pulitzer prize-winning Broadway play.

Release Date: January 29, 1987

Genre: Drama

Director: Tom Moore

Writer: Marsha Norman

Runtime: 1 h 36 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Aaron Spelling Productions, Blackbird Productions, Universal Pictures

Distributor: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment (UPHE), The Criterion Channel

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 3,000,000

Domestic: $ 441,863

Box office:

Budget:$3MDomestic:$441.9KWorldwide:$441.9K

Adaptation/remake:

based on play, based on stage play

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The Rotten Tomatoes audience rated this 6% higher than the critics.

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75% of the Stars & Main Cast are Female.

0% of the Stars & Main Cast are "diverse."

White100%

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Possibly woke elements:

strong female lead,strong female character

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Race	White	Total	Visuals	Info
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Forebears	4	4
Crowd	1	1		This is the crowdsourced dataset created by users like you! We greatly appreciate your cooperation in making ZR the most accurate and massive database on the internet. Sometimes the verdicts are submitted by looks alone, sometimes users attach an image and a source link. Due to this inconsistency please take the results with a grain of salt and click each actor for more info.
Total	18	18
Cast Percentages	100%	100%	{"name":"Cast Percentages","series":[{"name":"White","y":100,"color":"#2b908f","sliced":true,"selected":true}],"prefix":""}
U.S. Population (2020) Percentage	57.84%		{"name":"U.S. Population (2020)","series":[{"name":"White","y":57.84,"color":"#2b908f"},{"name":"Arab","y":0.54,"color":"#DF5353"},{"name":"Asian","y":6,"color":"#90ee7e"},{"name":"Black","y":12.4,"color":"#f45b5b"},{"name":"Indian","y":1.35,"color":"#7798BF"},{"name":"Indigenous","y":1.12,"color":"#aaeeee"},{"name":"Latino","y":18.73,"color":"#eeaaee"},{"name":"Mixed \/ Other","y":9.32,"color":"#55BF3B"},{"name":"Jewish","y":2.02,"color":"#ff0066"}],"prefix":""}	Source: US Census (Note: Racial and ethnic categories overlap so the sum will not equal 100%.)
U.S. Population (2020) Representation	+42.16		{"name":"U.S. Population (2020)","series":[["White",57.84]],"cast":[{"name":"White","y":100,"color":"#2b908f"}]}
U.S. Buying Power (2018) Percentage	74.35%		{"name":"U.S. Buying Power (2018)","series":[{"name":"White","y":12147700000000,"color":"#2b908f","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Arab","y":0,"color":"#DF5353","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Asian","y":1013300000000,"color":"#90ee7e","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Black","y":1300200000000,"color":"#f45b5b","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Indian","y":0,"color":"#7798BF","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Indigenous","y":114600000000,"color":"#aaeeee","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Latino","y":1539000000000,"color":"#eeaaee","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Mixed \/ Other","y":224700000000,"color":"#55BF3B","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Jewish","y":0,"color":"#ff0066","sliced":true,"selected":true}],"prefix":"$"}	Source: Selig Center, University of Georgia
U.S. Buying Power (2018) Representation	+25.65		{"name":"U.S. Buying Power (2018)","series":[["White",74.35]],"cast":[{"name":"White","y":100,"color":"#2b908f"}]}
U.S. Average Individual Income (2018) Percentage	65.34%		{"name":"U.S. Average Individual Income (2018)","series":[{"name":"White","y":11634301323350,"color":"#2b908f","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Arab","y":0,"color":"#DF5353","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Asian","y":1338741837216,"color":"#90ee7e","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Black","y":1679216574979,"color":"#f45b5b","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Indian","y":0,"color":"#7798BF","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Indigenous","y":161644857794,"color":"#aaeeee","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Latino","y":1693633411408,"color":"#eeaaee","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Mixed \/ Other","y":1297048822201,"color":"#55BF3B","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Jewish","y":0,"color":"#ff0066","sliced":true,"selected":true}],"prefix":"$"}	Source: IPUMS-CPS, University of Minnesota
U.S. Average Individual Income (2018) Representation	+34.66		{"name":"U.S. Average Individual Income (2018)","series":[["White",65.34]],"cast":[{"name":"White","y":100,"color":"#2b908f"}]}
World population (2016) Percentage	14.56%		{"name":"World population (2016) ","series":[{"name":"Mixed \/ Other","y":14080928408,"color":"#55BF3B","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Latino","y":41779986108,"color":"#eeaaee","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Indigenous","y":10563007755,"color":"#aaeeee","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"White","y":107672581567,"color":"#2b908f","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Black","y":102800941644,"color":"#f45b5b","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Asian","y":234445222813,"color":"#90ee7e","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Arab","y":63813089200,"color":"#DF5353","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Indian","y":161901582394,"color":"#7798BF","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Jewish","y":2488256092,"color":"#ff0066","sliced":true,"selected":true}],"prefix":""}	NOTE: ZR is the first organization to ever create a global buying power divided by race. Essentially we just took data from CIA.gov FactBook, UN Population Estimates, and The World Bank's Population Estimates / Purchasing Power Parity Per Capita.
World population (2016) Representation	+85.44		{"name":"World population (2016) ","series":[["White",14.56]],"cast":[{"name":"White","y":100,"color":"#2b908f"}]}
World Buying Power Percentage	36.48%		{"name":"World Buying Power","series":[{"name":"White","y":3010602822170000,"color":"#2b908f","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Latino","y":771525888400000,"color":"#eeaaee","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Jewish","y":91700962050000,"color":"#ff0066","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Black","y":526264226360000,"color":"#f45b5b","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Indigenous","y":174285727610000,"color":"#aaeeee","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Mixed \/ Other","y":148984454560000,"color":"#55BF3B","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Arab","y":526400066100000,"color":"#DF5353","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Asian","y":2431392083750000,"color":"#90ee7e","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Indian","y":572687873900000,"color":"#7798BF","sliced":true,"selected":true}],"prefix":"$"}	NOTE: ZR is the first organization to ever create a global buying power divided by race. Essentially we just took data from CIA.gov FactBook, UN Population Estimates, and The World Bank's Population Estimates / Purchasing Power Parity Per Capita.
World Buying Power Representation	+63.52		{"name":"World Buying Power","series":[["White",36.48]],"cast":[{"name":"White","y":100,"color":"#2b908f"}]}
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