Plot Summary:In 1963, the first US quintuplets to survive were born in Aberdeen, South Dakota. We meet the Fischers - the babies' parents - two weeks after the babies' birth; we see the physician and each infant. Then, we meet their several older siblings, see some of the donated items, watch dad take his older children around the farm in his Model T Ford, and follow mom on a shopping trip. The family discusses keeping the quints' lives away from the spotlight, and the city fathers talk about commercial possibilities. The film ends with a town dinner, speeches, and a parade to mark the quints' first month of life. The school band, the parents in a convertible, and then a sudden rain.
[Cinema Verite]. Mother kept her cool and unwillingness. Through the camera, we go to the privacy life of a family who has quintuplets. Compared with the TV version A Happy Mother's Day (including the advertisements and the host speech), this one has "heart" to the subjects.
First documentary class at Duke - Quintuplets' birth
"...the single greatest moment in the history of cinema..." -- the ending raining scene.
[Cinema Verite]. Mother kept her cool and unwillingness. Through the camera, we go to the privacy life of a family who has quintuplets. Compared with the TV version A Happy Mother's Day (including the advertisements and the host speech), this one has "heart" to the subjects.