All the Way Home

Overview

Jay Follet is suffering a mid-life crisis while his wife, Mary, is expecting their second child. When Jay takes his family to visit his 103-year-old grandmother, he begins to realize that life is passing by too quickly. He turns more and more toward alcohol to escape from reality. When Jay doesn't come home one night, Mary learns that he was in an accident and waits anxiously for his return. Screen adaptation of Tad Mosel's 1960 Pulitzer Prize-winning play based on James Agee's Pulitzer Prize-winning autobiographical novel A Death in the Family.

Directed by Fred Coe

Top cast

Joanne Woodward

Mary Follet

Richard Kiley

Jay Follet

Pat Hingle

Ralph Follet

Eileen Heckart

Aunt Hannah Lynch

Barnard Hughes

Joel Lynch

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Jane Mallett

Catherine Lynch

James Woods

Andrew Lynch

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James O'Neill

John Henry Follet

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Nan Stewart

Jessie Follet

Betty Garde

Aunt Sadie Follet

Kay Hawtrey

Sally Follet

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Jenny Laidle

Great-Great Grandma Follet

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Allan Clowes

Father Jackson

Shane Nickerson

Rufus Follet

Details