'Mama' knows best

Thursday, July 25, 2002

"I Remember Mama" opens with writer Katrin Hansen (Katie Jenkins) recalling the days a decade into the 20th century when her family sat around the kitchen table while her mother counted out enough money to pay the week's bills and buy a daughter a notebook. For this family of Norwegian immigrants in San Francisco, life is rich if the bank account is not.

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