Long Day's Journey Into Night

Long Day's Journey Into Night is a play by Eugene O'Neill which tells the story of an Irish-American family with an alcoholic father, a drug-addicted mother and two sons who strive to survive their parents. It is an autobiographical account of O'Neill's family. It won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1957.

The play was made into a 1962 film starring Katharine Hepburn, Ralph Richardson, Jason Robards, Dean Stockwell and Jeanne Barr.

The movie was adapted by O'Neill and directed by Sidney Lumet.

It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress (Katharine Hepburn).

The play was produced for television in 1973, starring Laurence Olivier and Constance Cummings. It was directed by Michael Blakemore and Peter Wood. Another television production in 1987 starred Peter Gallagher, Jack Lemmon, Bethel Leslie, Jodie Lynne McClintock and Kevin Spacey. It was directed by Jonathan Miller.

In 1996 another theatrical production was made, starring Martha Burns, Peter Donaldson, Martha Henry, William Hutt and Tom McCamus. It was directed by David Wellington.