“The filmmaker began making this film when he was 21; when the film was finished he had just turned 30. Death and the Singing Telegram is the intimate record of five years in the life of a large family divided between West Virginia, Chicago and New York. From debutante balls and second weddings, to birthdays, vacations, love trysts, illnesses, deaths, and funerals, the film is witness to the events great and small that mark time and to the gossip, confrontations and concessions that reveal the recognition of permanent change. A drama about growing old and living with irrevocable choices.” Mark Rance