May 08 2008
AMC to present Mother’s Day Marathon
On Mother’s Day Sunday, AMC (American Movie Channel) will present four intense films about mother-daughter relationships for its Mother’s Day Marathon.
The marathon will start at 9 a.m. (ET) with the 1957 film “Peyton Place” featuring Lana Turner and Diane Varsi as Constance and Allison MacKenzie, whose tense mother-daughter relationship simmers to a boil. This film was nominated for seven Academy Awards®.
At 11:45 a.m., Carol Lynley stars as an older, more cynical Allison MacKenzie in the 1961 “Return to Peyton Place.”
At 2 p.m., AMC will present the 1991 film “Not Without My Daughter” featuring Sally Fields as American Betty Mahmoody, who plots to leave her husband (Alfred Molina) and escape an Islamic Iran with her young daughter (Sheila Rosenthal).
At 4 p.m. the marathon will conclude with the final movie, the 1981 classic “On Golden Pond” with Katharine Hepburn and Jane Fonda. Hepburn won the Best Actress Oscar® for her role of an aged mother who helps to restore the relationship between her angry daughter (Jane Fonda) and her husband (Henry Fonda). This movie was nominated for a total of 10 Academy Awards®. The film also won for Best Screenplay.
