Long Day's Journey Into Night
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A claustrophobic, deeply melancholic examination of a family's slow dissolution across a single day, built on accusation, addiction, and the impossibility of escape or redemption.
An Irish miser, his morphine addicted wife, their debauched older son, and a gravely ill younger son. A quiet Connecticut vacation home on one foggy day in August 1912 becomes the backdrop for domestic decline.
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