You'll Like My Mother Page #2

Synopsis: Francesa Kinsolving, a very pregnant widow whose husband was rescently killed in action in Vietnam, travels to visit her late husband's mother in a snowy Minnesota town only to get snowed in during a fierce blizard where she's forced to wait it out only to slowly uncover some terrible dark secrets that Mrs. Kinsolving has been hiding, one of them is her psychotic other son, a recent escapee from a lunatic asylum, who is shacked up in the basement of the house.
Director(s): Lamont Johnson
Production: Universal
 
IMDB:
6.9
PG
Year:
1972
92 min
48 Views


- Don't you see?

Well, that really doesn't matter.

The fact remains I had no wish

to share my grief with you then,

I have no wish to share it now.

Well, I thought perhaps we might

share the love of Matthew's baby.

Yes, of course. The baby.

I don't imagine

you're too financially secure.

No, I'm not.

Then, there's obviously

only one solution.

- What's that?

- Adoption, of course.

Let someone else have the burden.

The burden?

Forgive me, Mrs. Kinsolving,

but, I want that burden.

That's very foolish.

There are other things to consider.

No, there's nothing else to consider.

Look, you can put your mind at rest.

I'm not gonna take a dime from you.

That's not what I came up here for.

I didn't even know about your house,

or your money, or anything else.

I don't have any family of my own.

That's the only reason I came.

I thought that if there were any love

or warmth here for Matthew's baby

that I'd know it in five minutes.

You haven't got a damn thing I want.

And it didn't even take five minutes.

Good-bye, Mrs. Kinsolving.

I must ask you not to turn away

from me when you're speaking.

What?

I've been growing deaf

for quite some years now.

It makes it necessary for me

to read your lips

when I'm not wearing

that ridiculous hearing aid.

I'm sorry.

Matthew never told me.

Apparently there was quite a lot

Matthew never told you.

What time is your bus?

8:
00, but I'll wait for it

back at the store.

I seem to have a better rapport

with strangers today.

I will not hear of it, of course.

Among strangers?

You must be tired,

and in your condition,

you shouldn't overdo.

I'm a registered nurse.

Really, I must insist.

I'm not staying, Mrs. Kinsolving.

I'm afraid you have no choice.

It's snowing much too heavily now

for you to walk.

You'll rest in my room.

It's just down the hall.

The upstairs rooms

are all closed off.

They're never used

now that Kathleen and I

are the only ones in the house.

Look, all I want to do

is get back where I belong.

We'll have dinner at 6:00?

I'll drive you to the bus myself.

I have no intentions whatsoever

of letting you miss that bus,

I assure you.

Aw, she's looking for her kittens.

Aw.

She has a marvelous pedigree.

But the naughty girl forgot herself

and mated with an alley cat.

The kittens were no good, of course.

Come along.

I've laid out some towels for you.

Anything else you need, I'm sure

you'll find in the medicine cabinet.

Thank you.

Who is that?

My nephew, Kenneth.

Kenny.

- He looks so sweet and innocent.

- What did you say?

So that's Matthew's cousin.

When they were children,

Kenny pulled the shell off

Matthew's turtle, and it died.

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Jo Heims

Joyce "Jo" Heims (January 15, 1930 – April 22, 1978) was an American screenwriter best known for her collaborations with actor-director Clint Eastwood. Born in Philadelphia, Heims moved out to the US west coast in early adulthood. She worked various jobs before starting a career writing for film and television during the 1960s. In addition to co-writing the story for Eastwood's role in Dirty Harry, Heims drafted the screenplay for Play Misty for Me, which served as Eastwood's own directorial debut in 1971. Heims continued to screenwrite throughout the decade before dying of breast cancer in 1978. more…

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