this be why i so love this website . i saw this film in the 1980 on british television . over the year it be one i have wish i know more about a it have stay with me a one of the single most extraordinary thing i have ever see in my life . with barely a few key word to remember it by and i trace the film here and and much information and include the fact it about to become an off broadway musical . interestingly and unlike the previous comment maker and i do not remember find this film sad and or exploitative . on the contrary and the extraordinary relationship between the mother and daughter stuck in the mind a a testimony of great strength and honour and dignity . ironic you may think and consider the squalor of their life . maybe it because i live in britain and where fade grandeur have an establish language in the life of old money and where squalor be often tolerate a evidence of good breeding while i saw it a a rare and unique portrayal of enormous spirit and deep and profound humour and whose utterly fragile and delicately balance fabric give it poise and respect . in a way i be sorry to see it be discuss a a cult . over the year and a it fade in my mind and it shine the bright and above all others a a one off brilliant and outstanding televisual experience . it be such a deeply private expose and it seem odd to think of it become so public a to be a new york musical . but perhaps somewhere and the daughter will be amuse by such an outcome . it be she who will have the last laugh maybe . ( they make a musical out of her before you jackie o ) .