Before You Go
2001, 91 minutes, Rated M
When Violet Heaney's three daughters return home for her funeral, each sister finds her own way of coping with her loss. For Teresa, the eldest, it's herbal tea, obsessive cleaning and hectoring her long-suffering husband, Frank. Catherine, the youngest, resorts to retail therapy, industrial quantities of marijuana and manic phone calls to her elusive boyfriend in Barcelona. Middle daughter Mary seeks consolation in professional detachment and the arms of her lover, Mike.
Funeral preparations include a visit from the local priest who can't remember the name of the deceased and repeated visits from the deceased herself, as usual wearing an awful cocktail dress. Mary can't understand why her mother has chosen to haunt her alone. Theresa and Violet don't see Violet's ghost.
It is gradually revealed that their mother's ghost has come to lay old resentments to rest before she goes on to her final resting place.
- Director:
- Lewis Gilbert [20],
- Starring:
- Joanne Whalley [20], Victoria Hamilton [5], John Hannah [36], Julie Walters [19], Patricia Hodge [8], Tom Wilkinson [38],
- Screen Formats:
- Widescreen
- Language and Sound:
- English Dolby Digital Stereo
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