- Award-winning actress Coleen Dewhurst is Molly Dushane, a hard-drinking, hard-living woman desperate for one last fling at life. Megan Follows is her daughter Micheline, an angry, passionate girl who's convinced there must be a living, breathing world somewhere outside the city limits of her sleepy hometown.—Thomas Gaukel <thomas_gaukel@compuserve.com>
- Termini Station is a raw, angry, often funny story of a mother and daughter struggling to free themselves from their bitter past in a Canadian mining town. Directed with precision and grace by Allan King, the film was released in 1990 and features Debra McGrath, Norma Dell'Agnese and NYPD BLUE regular, Gordon Clapp.
"Colleen Murphy's beautifully written script tells of a family troubled by past scandal and a dead-end present. Molly, the 60ish mother, is eccentric and possibly mad, drunk, and dying; confined to a bedroom in her uptight son's house, she plays opera tapes, drinks Scotch smuggled in to her by her rebellious teenage daughter Micheline, and dreams of going to Rome (whose major transit station gives the film its title) in search of 'passion'. The same quest had previously driven her into a notorious affair - a scandal that led to her husband's suicide, her son's resentment, and her daughter's identity crisis and drift into prostitution. Every character in this film is looking for an escape; how Molly and Micheline find theirs is the crux of Murphy's compassionately told story." Chicago Reader, 1990
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