Rent You'll Like My Mother (1972)
3.4 of 5 from 52 ratings
1h 32min
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- Synopsis:
Terror ensues in 'You'll Like My Mother', a bone-chilling thriller about walking into a house filled with deadly family secrets. Francesca Kinsolving (Patty Duke) a pregnant and newly widowed woman travels to Minnesota to seek solace with her mother-in-law (Rosemary Murphy). Expecting a warm welcome, she enters into a nightmare world of secrets, surprises, deception and her wanting to flee. A snow blizzard strands her in the house with the insidious woman, Murphy's disturbed teenage daughter (Sian Barbara Allen) and her homicidal fugitive son (Richard Thomas). When she uncovers the dark and demented family secrets, her life is put in danger, leading to a nail biting race against time for her to gather her strength and her baby, and run for safety. - Actors:
- Patty Duke, Rosemary Murphy, Richard Thomas, Sian Barbara Allen, Dennis Rucker, Harold Congdon, James Glazman, James Neumann, Joel Thingvall
- Directors:
- Lamont Johnson
- Producers:
- Mort Briskin
- Writers:
- Jo Heims, Naomi A. Hintze
- Genres:
- Classics, Drama, Horror, Thrillers
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 24/07/2023
- Run Time:
- 93 minutes
- Languages:
- English LPCM Mono
- Subtitles:
- None
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 1.85:1
- Colour:
- Colour
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
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Reviews (1) of You'll Like My Mother
Run Fransceca! Run for your life! - You'll Like My Mother review by NP
Very much in the style of its time, this 1972 production – very much in the style of a TV Movie although it did have a cinematic release – features Patty Duke as Francesca, a very appealing lead and Rosemary Murphy as the dreaded mother-in-law. Richard Thomas, famous as John-Boy from wholesome American TV series ‘The Waltons’ is effective as Kenny. Completing the quartet of central actors is familiar ‘70s television actor Sian Barbara Allen as Kathleen. What a family they turn out to be.
The story is a somewhat silly one, and it’s difficult to explain why without including spoilers. That Francesca is heavily pregnant from the outset is a strong indicator that a baby will feature somewhere in this story. It’s the infant’s implausibly exemplary behaviour that allows the tale to roll on and remains a major stumbling point in going along with it.
But it’s worth your time. The acting is terrific, and the production displays much of the style of television drama we really don’t see these days. My score is 7 out of 10.
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