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Run Time: 1h 49m.

IMDb: 6.2 / 10.

Release year: 1968.

Story: A penniless woman meets a strange girl who insists she is her long-lost mother, and becomes enmeshed in a web of deception, and perhaps madness.

Leonora Grabowski (Dame Elizabeth Taylor) mourns the death by drowning years earlier of her daughter. She encounters a strange waif-like girl, Cenci Engelhard (Mia Farrow), who bears a strong resemblance to her lost child. Cenci is struck by the great resemblance of Leonora to her own mother, whose death the mentally unstable Cenci has been unable to accept or even acknowledge. The two women quickly develop a symbiotic relationship, moving in and out of the illusion that each is the lost loved one of the other. The complicating factor is the arrival of Albert (Robert Mitchum), Cencis stepfather, whose incestuous attachment to her may well be the cause of her minds unbalance. With Alberts arrival, no one in the strange trio is safe.

Leonora Grabowski (Dame Elizabeth Taylor), and Cenci Engelhard (Mia Farrow), a twenty-two year old heiress now alone in the world, embark on a relationship of sorts following their chance meeting. That relationship stems from Cenci, who suffers from psychological issues, believing, due to a physical resemblance, that Leonora is really her mother, Margaret Engelhard, who recently passed away. Learning why Cenci has this attachment to her, Leonora senses an opportunity to get out of her low rent life by realizing Cencis delusion in becoming her mother, at least in her eyes. But Leonora also takes on this persona in her own unrealized motherly instinct, as her own daughter, Judith Grabowski, passed away five years ago at the age of ten in an accidental drowning. Reality could threaten this new arrangement, that reality in the form of Cencis paternal spinster aunts, Hannah (Peggy Ashcroft) and Hilda (Pamela Brown), who, if they cant inherit the Engelhard estate, plan to steal it one item at a time, and in the form of Margarets second husband, Albert (Robert Mitchum), who returns from abroad where he was living and who not only has that opportunistic sense like the rest of them, but also a predatory nature specifically when it comes to Cenci. What happens is also affected by Leonora coming to a better understanding of Cencis psychological and emotional issues, and she doing whatever required to protect her "daughter" at whatever cost in not wanting to lose another child all over again.

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