{"id":20649,"date":"2016-05-11T22:57:20","date_gmt":"2016-05-12T02:57:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=20649"},"modified":"2016-05-11T22:57:20","modified_gmt":"2016-05-12T02:57:20","slug":"youll-like-my-mother-1972-blu-ray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/11\/youll-like-my-mother-1972-blu-ray\/","title":{"rendered":"You\u2019ll Like My Mother (1972) [Blu-Ray]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/youlllikemymother.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20650\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/youlllikemymother.jpg\" alt=\"youlllikemymother\" width=\"380\" height=\"478\" \/><\/a>Though director Lamont Johnson\u2019s \u201cYou\u2019ll Like My Mother\u201d is generally well received, I found it to be a mostly flat thriller with a lot of the attempted suspense lost in translation. \u201cYou\u2019ll Like My Mother\u201d is a mix of \u201cMisery\u201d and \u201cFlowers in the Attic,\u201d in where a young woman tries to reconcile with her dead husband\u2019s family and gets much more than she bargained for. The late Patty Duke plays Fran, a very pregnant young woman who ventures in to Minnesota in the dead of winter to visit her husband\u2019s family and perhaps make peace with them.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Fran is a little more than surprised to learn her husband\u2019s mother absolutely resents Fran for marrying her son and refuses to acknowledge he committed the ceremony. Soon enough though, Fran finds herself stuck in the mansion as snow has trapped her inside the old mysterious house with the odd relatives. What\u2019s worse is that Fran begins to suspect they\u2019re making no attempt to get her back home, and might actually be intent on keeping her there against her will. Soon enough, Fran begins scheming to escape with her life, and learns a lot the unusual relatives, all while battling with her mother in law.<\/p>\n<p>Events spiral out of control as her the matriarch of the mansion becomes more aggressive with Fran, drugging her and imprisoning her, while Fran becomes more and more desperate to escape. The tension ratchets up considerably as the narrative unfolds, and surprising enough, once the twists are introduced, \u201cYou\u2019ll Like My Mother\u201d becomes significantly less entertaining. Johnson\u2019s thriller is such a dour and miserable thriller that even tense moments, like one involving Fran desperately trying to escape her room with the help of the mentally disabled Kathleen and a large selection of unmarked keys, are so tedious.<\/p>\n<p>Despite my problems with the overall film, \u201cYou\u2019ll Like My Mother\u201d garners some strong performances, particularly from Patty Duke, and Sian Barbara Ann. \u201cYou\u2019ll Like My Mother\u201d has a lot of potential for tension, and teeth gnashing mystery, but in the end, it\u2019s a tame and pretty dull mystery with a clumsy climax. Among the special features, there\u2019s the hour long \u201cThe Mystery of Kenny and Kathleen\u201d where Patty Duke and Richard Thomas engage in interviews about the film and their separate work in film and television. There\u2019s also a photo gallery and the original trailer for the film.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Though director Lamont Johnson\u2019s \u201cYou\u2019ll Like My Mother\u201d is generally well received, I found it to be a mostly flat thriller with a lot of the attempted suspense lost in translation. \u201cYou\u2019ll Like My Mother\u201d is a mix of \u201cMisery\u201d and \u201cFlowers in the Attic,\u201d in where a young woman tries to reconcile with her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20650,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,17],"tags":[64,240,302,703,1013,1087,1130,1211],"class_list":["post-20649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-movie-reviews","category-tv-tomb","tag-adaptation","tag-crime","tag-drama","tag-mystery","tag-suspense","tag-thriller","tag-tv-movie","tag-y"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20649"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20651,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20649\/revisions\/20651"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}