A Long Day’s Journey Into Night
1962, 174 min.
Directed by Sidney Lumet, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Katharine Hepburn, Ralph Richardson, Jason Robards, Dean Stockwell.

Eugene O’Neill’s razor-toothed examination of life’s dents and scars that cause family members to act as they do is conveyed here with great intensity and fidelity to its source. Hepburn is unforgettable as the drug-addicted mother, Richardson plays the miserly head of the family suffering from faded glory, Stockwell plays the son dying of tuberculosis and Robards the son dying of drink.

This article appears in July 9 • 1999 (Cover).

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Marjorie Baumgarten is a film critic and contributing writer at The Austin Chronicle, where she has worked in many capacities since the paper's founding in 1981. She served as the Chronicle's Film Reviews editor for 25 years.