His sister keeps a diary where she addresses her dead mother, telling her what has been happening. It is clearly that the kids are trying to live the drama by their own methods: the youngest starts dressing like a girl, and plays with his best friend being his mom and dad, and also drinks from the feeding bottle. They decide to bury her body in cement, in an iron file cabinet, left down in the basement. Two teenagers are left with their two younger siblings alone after their mother dies, only a little while their father has also departed. I remember that when reading the book, I was really shocked by the unusual the unusual happenings, feelings, or should i call them.not something that a society would approve of.
This is a great movie for the art house and it made a striking impression on me when I first saw it in the 1990s, put on by one of the local film societies like the Ann Arbor Film Cooperative or a similar group, I believe in Lorch Hall.
But in the movie there are much longer quotes from the Science Fiction pulp fiction novel which are an amusing satire on Science Fiction as well as being a novel-within-a-novel that can illuminate Jack, the reader and fan of the book. An example: in the novel, Jack is given a novel by his sister Sue, "Voyage to Oblivion", and there are a few quotes and a plot summary that relate to Jack and his outlook. It really stays true to the novel and even builds on some of the ideas and themes and devices that were in the novel. I think this is an exemplary adaptation of a work of literature. The acting, atmosphere, and story are all wonderful, and you are drawn into this odd family in the film just as you are in the novel. This is a slow and patient adaptation of a quirky novel about an unusual family.
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