The Woman in the Room (1983)
Directed by Frank Darabont
The main character, an attorney by profession, spends endless hours with his terminally ill mother. Death is her only way out and he's the only one that can help.
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The film is an adaptation of a Stephen King novella, and it's the fourth time Darabont has adapted one of King's works (the first was a short "The Woman in the Room" from a collection of adaptations from King's short story anthology Night Shift).
Because Darabont and King are collaborating writers whose history together goes back to Darabont’s first feature ("The Woman in the Room" – 1983) there is a joyful effortlessness that comes across in this collaboration like silk being drawn off a greased spool.
Adapting King's The Shawshank Redemption (1994) and The Green Mile (1999) brought the writer-director three Oscar nominations, and the good-luck chain actually stretches back to 1977, when King sold a 23-year-old Darabont the rightsfor all of one dollarto an old story, The Woman in the Room.