Director Gilbert Cates (I Never Sang for My Father) takes on the complexities of family relationships, mid-life pain and loss. Joanne Woodward and Martin Balsam play the couple coming to terms with the truth about their relationship, their fears about their homosexual son, and the mixed emotions brought on by the death of her mother (Sylvia Sidney). This rich character study resulted in two Oscar nominations, for actresses Woodward (Bes
