Andres Mother
7.6 /10 1 Votes7.6
Director Deborah Reinisch Initial DVD release May 9, 2006 Duration Language English | 7.6/10 IMDb Genre Comedy, Drama Country United States | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Release date March 7, 1990 Cast Similar movies Terrence McNally wrote the screenplay for Andres Mother and Love! Valour! Compassion! | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Andre's Mother is an American drama film, written by Terrence McNally and directed by Deborah Reinisch, which was broadcast on the PBS television program American Playhouse in 1990.
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Production
The screenplay by Terrence McNally is an expansion of his eight-minute play written for an anthology titled Urban Blight that was produced by the Manhattan Theater Club in 1988.
The film was produced by WGBH Boston and was broadcast on March 14, 1990 by PBS stations nationwide as part of the American Playhouse series. It was released on Region 1 DVD on April 25, 2006.
Plot
The play is set at the Manhattan memorial service for Andre Gerard, who died of AIDS and was buried in Dallas several weeks earlier. Andre's mother Katharine cannot come to terms with his death or share her grief with Cal, Andre's lover. Her rage is directed not only at the man she never accepted and her own mother, who was less judgmental of her grandson's life, but at Andre himself as well.
Main cast
Source: Paley Center
Critical reception
John O'Connor of the New York Times called it one of those
...programs that vividly illustrate why public television can be indispensable....
"Andre's Mother" has been given a superb cast and an exquisite production ....
Awards
McNally won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Miniseries, Movie or a Dramatic Special, and the National Board of Review named it Outstanding Television Movie of the Year.
References
Andre's Mother WikipediaAndres Mother IMDb