Meredith gets it right, finally, when she gifts all the members of the Stone family with a framed black and white photo of Sybil taken when she was pregnant with Amy.
The picture, though edited to make Sybil look pregnant, was from Keaton’s own archive, taken when she was 27 by her mom Dorothy Deanne.
“That moved me more than anything in the movie,” Keaton told Girl.com.au, “because that picture was, to me, about my mother.”
She explained, “I had the strangest feeling when I looked at that picture—which, I hate that picture—but I had this feeling that, you know, that’s the best acting I’ve ever done in my whole entire life is that portrait that my mother took. So, the whole thing about motherhood and, you know, your sense of honor to your mother had such resonance for me in that moment, and I just thought that Tom Bezucha captured that in such a lovely way about, you know, life going on…It’s my favorite moment in any movie that I’ve ever been in, is my mother’s photograph of me, because she took it.”
