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Complaints of a Dutiful Daughter(1994)
Status: Released
Date: 1994-12-01
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Time: 0h 44m
What's a daughter to do when her mother asks: "How exactly are we related?"
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This Academy Award-nominated film takes a moving personal story, illuminates it with insight and humor, and makes it universal. In recounting her attempts to come to terms with her mother's advancing Alzheimer's disease, Deborah Hoffmann explores the relationship between mother and daughter, parent and child, and the tenacity of love.
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This Academy Award-nominated film takes a moving personal story, illuminates it with insight and humor, and makes it universal. In recounting her attempts to come to terms with her mother's advancing Alzheimer's disease, Deborah Hoffmann explores the relationship between mother and daughter, parent and child, and the tenacity of love.
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1994-12-01
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What's a daughter to do when her mother asks: "How exactly are we related?"
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