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Length: 47 minutes

Filmmaker: Laurel Greenberg

Official Web Site
http://www.94years.com

Distributor(s):
Terra Nova Films
http://www.terranova.org Laurel Greenberg
http://www.94years.com

94 Years and One Nursing Home Later

A Story of Love, Pride, Denial and other Family Values

Film Description

94 Years and 1 Nursing Home Later begins when filmmaker Laurel Greenberg watches some home movies that her father shot of his mother in a nursing home in Philadelphia. "Do you like it here?" Marvin asks his mother Belle. Her weak smile and feigned enthusiasm seem to satisfy Marvin, yet are disturbing to Laurel, who sets out to uncover her grandmother's true feelings. An immigrant from Russia, Belle Greenberg built her life around caring for her family. How did she come to be alone and isolated from this family at the end of her life? Through intimate scenes Greenberg depicts the struggle to balance personal needs with familial responsibility, the fragmenting of families across the country, and the difficult evolution of the caretaker parent to dependent elder.

Awards

Best Documentary - Silver Images Film Festival Best Documentary - First Glance L.A. Best Documentary - Renaissance City Film Fest Best Boston Documentary of 2000 - Boston Phoenix

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