• This 1994 Academy Award-nominated documentary recounts one daughter ‘s attempts to come to terms with
her mother’s advancing Alzheimer’s disease, Deborah Hoffmann explores the relationship between mother and
daughter, parent and child. The film chronicles the various stages of a mother’s Alzheimer’s disease and the
evolution of a daughter’s response to the illness.
Please answer question below.
- What challenges emerge in the film?
- How does the mother communicatively adapt to her own cognitive decline?
- What did the daughter do to try to adapt to the communication challenges she was experiencing with her
mother? - What change did you see in the daughter’s reaction to the Alzheimer’s disease over the course of the film?
- Did you notice any positive changes in the relationship between the daughter and her mother that may not
have happened without the Alzheimer’s disease? - How would this relationship have been different if the daughter’s evolution had not taken place?
- How was humor a positive force between daughter and mother?