Long Day's Journey into Night, 1962
The Tyrones of Eugene O'Neill's finest drama were his own cursed family: actor father James, two wastrel sons and a mother retreating behind the lace curtains of drug-addled despair. Ralph Richardson, Jason Robards Jr., Dean Stockwell and Katharine Hepburn lent their luster to Lumet's film, which is true to the poetry and horror of this loving, devastating family portrait.

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