“The past is always with us…it’s the present, it’s the future too”. Katherine Hepburn gives a disquieting, decently accurate, almost bordering on self developed performance of what she makes out to be a lonely wife/mother of two grown men/ and as we discover very early into the film…a regular morphine addict. I think this film-as it has been hailed-is very definitely one of the definitive plays to ever be filmed. Running almost dragging into a three hour running time, the viewer(this one at least) is barely to feel or notice this. The intensity of the dialogue and the colorful agony of the inhabitants of this storm of a domestic array of regrets and confessed failures-is enough that it defeats time. You want to get away from what these people have been trying to reel you into for almost an hour. Of course into hour two you retract that premature emotion. A first rate, four star film.