Lives Together/Worlds Apart

In the 1940s film Now, Voyager, Bette Davis plays a daughter struggling against her mother''s stifling repression. Nearly fifty years later, in the Hollywood saga Postcards from the Edge, Shirley MacLaine, as a neglectful and bossy mother, inflicts untold psychological pain on her daughter, played by Meryl Streep. These dramas of conflict and the ambivalent struggle for separation have been centra...