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Title: Quiet please!
Review: Hush? There was really no need to call for quiet during the first hour of this grandiose, but rather slow thriller.....the distinct lack of action and overdeliberate development of the characters produced a sufficiently soporific effect to ensure silence. The success of movies of this "evil matriarch" ilk seems to depend upon evoking a feeling of hatred for the mother figure and, eventually, the urge to strangle Jessica Lange is almost irrepressible, but it all takes too long to happen. So, a beautifully shot film with a luxurious country estate backdrop and a top draw cast (Nina Foch is delightful as the down-to-earth paternal grandmother), but this ground has been covered with more malice and a smaller budget by movies like "The Stepmother" (Diane Ladd).
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