The title is based on the play and movie
Long Day's Journey Into Night (1962). The Broadway play by Eugene O'Neill opened at the Helen Hayes Theater in New York on November 7, 1956 and ran for 390 performances. The stage production included
Florence Eldridge,
Fredric March and
Katharine Ross and won the 1957 Tony Award for the Best Play and the Pulitzer Prize in Drama in 1957.