Long Day's Journey Into Night

1962 · 170 MIN · IMDB 7.5 · 6,144 VOTES · DIR. Sidney Lumet

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Overview

Over the course of one foggy day in August 1912, a retired Irish theater actor grapples with the morphine addiction of his unbalanced wife, debauchery of his older son, and sickness of the youngest son as past guilts, repressed anger, and deep-seated regrets slowly come boiling out, threatening to destroy the family.

Dialogue Timeline — 1,815 lines

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00:01:40 Thank heaven the fog is gone.
00:06:32 I know what doctors are, they're all alike, anything, they don't care what to keep you coming to them.
00:13:05 You made him old before his time, pumping him full of what you consider worldly wisdom, when he was too young to see that your mind was so poisoned by your own failure in life
00:19:28 They're the sweetest hands in the world.
00:29:23 - Oh and you'd better call my mother too. - What for? She's always on time without any calling.
00:37:09 - Yes ma'am. - Look damn it why don't we go in without him, he told us to.
00:43:53 But for the love of God why couldn't you have the strenght to keep on?
00:51:39 I'll make so much noise she can't suspect I've come up to spy on her.
00:59:15 - I hated the ones that cut me dead much less than the pitiers. - Mary for God's sake don't dig up what's long forgotten.
01:06:37 I've become such a liar.
01:15:33 Even though Mr. Tyrone has made me go with him on all his tours.
01:22:29 He was different... different from ordinary men like someone from another world.
01:30:05 before I opened the door. We... we were still in our honeymoon, remember?
01:36:36 - Your father had to go to work in a machine shop when he was only ten years... - For pete's sake Mama!
01:44:29 Who's that?
01:51:06 Well I wouldn't worry about the virtue part of it if I were you.
01:57:14 What have they done her? She's always started again.
02:05:20 Twice we were evicted from the miserable hovel we called home. My mother's few sticks of furniture thrown out on the gutter.
02:12:18 More of your morbidness. There's nothing wrong with life.
02:20:10 And I'm going on the wagon but tonight doesn't count.
02:27:03 You should have stuck around with me kid.
02:33:36 You better take this seriously.
02:40:59 Why don't you do the same Edmund.
02:49:25 for a time.

Cast & Characters

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed1,815
Dialogue density10.7 lines / min
First line00:01:40
Final line02:49:25

Production Record

DirectorSidney Lumet
LanguageEnglish
Budget$500,000
IMDb votes6,144