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Night mother?
Something like that.
Wait. That might have been a gun she used.
Yeah, 'Night, Mother is entirely focused on the suicide; that's the point of the whole play. The one I'm thinking of, the suicide intent is just a minor plot detail (would be spoilers if I explained).
There was One True Thing with Meryl and Renee Zellweger, but the suicide was definitely not a "plot detail."
The one I mentioned wasn't that one, and the suicide plan was indeed not a very major thing (at least not in the book).
Spoiler:
Spoiler
When the main character is diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, she starts collecting sleeping pills and writes down instructions for herself to take them when she's too far gone (she has certain criteria she has to meet for things she can no longer remember). She never ends up killing herself (scroll down for more spoilers). But this is just one small thing in a whole plot of living with dementia, not nearly the point of the story.
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One day she has indeed forgotten the certain things-- I think one of them was the name of her daughter, or something-- so she follows her own instructions to go upstairs and take the whole bottle of pills. On the way upstairs, she forgets why she was going up there...
The one I mentioned wasn't that one, and the suicide plan was indeed not a very major thing (at least not in the book).
Spoiler:
Spoiler
When the main character is diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, she starts collecting sleeping pills and writes down instructions for herself to take them when she's too far gone (she has certain criteria she has to meet for things she can no longer remember). She never ends up killing herself (scroll down for more spoilers). But this is just one small thing in a whole plot of living with dementia, not nearly the point of the story.
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One day she has indeed forgotten the certain things-- I think one of them was the name of her daughter, or something-- so she follows her own instructions to go upstairs and take the whole bottle of pills. On the way upstairs, she forgets why she was going up there...
Spoiler
Actually while she was up in the bathroom, the doorbell rings and she drops the piils.
I had a close friend who had Alzheimers and "Still Alice" really hits close to home.
It also made me aware of what to look for when people are starting to act different.
I looked at the list of Meryl Streep's movies, and i`m pretty sure it wasn't her. The only book/movie I know of with the exact scenario is "Still Alice." I read the book and saw the movie. That was Julianne Moore. You seem not to think it was that one. I wonder why.
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