You'll Like My Mother is a 1972 American horror-thriller film directed by Lamont Johnson, from screenplay by Jo Heims based on the novel of the same name by Naomi A. Hintze.

The film stars Patty Duke, Rosemary Murphy, Richard Thomas and Sian Barbara Allen.

[2] Marrying after a short courtship, Francesca Kinsolving finds herself young, pregnant, and widowed when her husband Matthew is killed in a plane crash in Vietnam two weeks later.

After writing and receiving no answer from his relatives, a heavily pregnant Francesca travels by bus from Los Angeles to rural Northeastern Minnesota to meet her late husband's mother, Maria Kinsolving.

After Mrs. Kinsolving and Kathleen retire for the night, Francesca sneaks around and discovers in the family Bible that Maria died eleven days after Matthew was killed.

Roger Greenspun of The New York Times gave the film a middling review, writing: You'll Like My Mother, the ads tell you, is a thriller—as if with a title like that you needed to be told—and it is a thriller of a fairly conventional, comfortably old-fashioned sort.

Filmed in the dead of winter in a marvelous old mansion with cluttered firelit rooms, carved wood staircases, a secret attic hideaway, an ancient family Bible in the library, a coach house full of carriages and sleighs, it all but immerses you in castoffs from a rich and deeply rooted past that most of us can only dream of remembering.

[6]Variety, however, gave the film a positive review, which read: "You'll Like My Mother is a quietly intense thriller spotlighting excellent performances by Patty Duke and Rosemary Murphy.

"[7] Time Out's published review of the film notes: "Johnson's direction tends to lay on the spooks a bit heavily, while the over-familiar situation (with echoes of Rosemary's Baby) is a further strait-jacket.

"[9] For her performance in the film, Sian Barbara Allen was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year – Actress.