Another Language

In this film, Louise Closser Hale plays a domineering matriarch who controls the lives of her grown, married sons using a fabricated heart condition. Helen Hayes marries youngest son Robert Montgomery, only to sit by in mute horror as Mother exerts her authority over her timorous offspring., Recently married couple Stella and Victor visit Victor’s family, whose snooty matriarch rules over them. The family disapproves of Stella, believing she’s pretentious and aloof, and soon Victor takes his family’s side over Stella’s. Based on the play by Rosen Franken.