Plot
Three sisters, Renata (Diane Keaton), Flyn (Kristin Griffith), and Joey (Mary Beth Hurt) live through the painful separation of their parents. Their father, Arthur (E. G. Marshall), parts from their controlling and mentally unstable but artistically inclined mother, Eve (Geraldine Page), going on to marry a more "normal" but plainer woman Pearl (Maureen Stapleton). The evening after Arthur marries Pearl, Eve commits suicide by walking into the ocean. The film ends with Eve's funeral.
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