Films/DVD Asylum

Posted by Mrs. Piggy (A) on October 14, 2002 at 19:18:32

In Reply to: The Greatest single SCENE (not necessarily the entire performance) in modern (post-70) posted by tinear on October 14, 2002 at 06:50:04:

I thought it was decent though. There is a scene where Sissy Spacek has told her mother, Ann Bancroft, that this world has nothing to offer her and she is going to commit suicide. The evining comes and Sissy is going through a list of instructions to her mother about who to give what etc--and the mother is playing along--until Sissy locks herself in the bedroom with the gun--this sends the mother into panic mode, as she desperately tries to talk her out of it. The heartache and desperation in the mom seems real, as well as the despair Sissy feels losing her prized and adored control.

Another scene--Terms of endearment, when Shirley McClain just loses her daughter to cancer and she cries and explains how she feels decieved because she thought it would be easier, because it would end the suffering.

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