There is a scene when Eddie talks to his Dad about how some men came with a bed on wheels (stretcher) and took his mother away to the hospital. Eddie says she told him to take care of his father and asks him whether his mother knew she was never coming back. Eddie's father says he doesn't know.
Other than that, I didn't hear any mention of the events surrounding her death. Do they ever say?
No, we're never told.
(And it's so heartbreaking when Eddie is putting on that last shirt that "mummy ironed"...)
My sister always referred to this kind of death as "old movie disease," ill-defined but aways fatal!
share"Old Movie Disease" made its debut, I believe, in Mad, in their lampoon of Love Story.
shareI think in "MADD" magazine, they called it "beautiful movie disease", and there's nothing old about it, everyone who dies on tv or in movies is sooooooo beautiful.
sharea) it's "Mad" with one D, not two
b) Roger Ebert coined "Ali McGraw Disease" after Love Story: it's a disease that makes a woman more beautiful the sicker she gets
"My brain rebelled, and insisted on applying logic where it was not welcome."share
I have the book by Mark Toby, and I don't think it says there either. But I think maybe it was the flu or something like that. Either way, it was a short illness, and an unexpected death.
shareShe fell to her death when King Kong dropped her. Does it really matter how she died or what she died of? The point is, she died young and left a family. Mission accomplished to set up the movie. Why do details that have nothing to do with the film matter?
shareShe died of boredom reading IMDb blogs and watching Ron Howard flicks.
Every man dies; not every man really lives. - William Wallace
Eddie was so annoying that she couldn't take it anymore, and just gave up on living.
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