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With profound insight and a healthy dose of levity, Complaints of a
Dutiful Daughter chronicles the various stages of a mother's Alzheimer's
Disease and the evolution of a daughter's response to the illness. The desire
to cure the incurable-to set right her mother's confusion and forgetfulness, to
temper her mother's obsessiveness-gives way to an acceptance which is finally
liberating for both daughter and mother. Neither depressing nor medical,
Complaints of a Dutiful Daughter is much more than a story about
Alzheimer's and family caregiving. It is ultimately a life-affirming
exploration of family relations, aging and change, the meaning of memory, and
love.
A Deborah Hoffman Women Make Movies film. 44 minutes. 1994.
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