Mother's Day

Directed by James Broughton

With Marion Cunningham, Donald Pidgeon, Hal Goldman, Donald Nelson and Betty Lee Balder

Accepting the potentialities of the medium to manipulate both time and space, Broughton brings past and present head-on as he regards with adult feelings his childhood family and friends. Grown-ups romp like children, and by their magnified infantilism playfully underscore such basic traits as sadism, sensuality, arid egocentricity. (Melbourne International Film Festival)