mothers-in-law

Naomi, widowed eight years earlier, is faced with loss again when her adult son is killed in an automobile accident, and decides to move from New England to her hometown in South Carolina, accompanied by her daughter-in-law Ruth, where both are welcomed into a large and loving family that helps them deal with their grief.

Paula Johnson brings her ailing, elderly mother-in-law to live with her family, and struggles to build a relationship with the tough old woman who only wants to go home.

Ben and Elaine from "The Graduate" settle down to a quiet life in suburban Westchester to home-school their two sons, and when a crisis arises, bringing Mrs. Robinson back into the family's life, the couple attempt to shock her by inviting a family of hippies into their home.

Albert Corde, newspaperman turned academic, accompanies his wife to visit her dying mother in Bucharest. At home in Chicago, his magazine articles and involvement in a student murder scandal have him in the middle of a raging controversy.