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Wit (2001) | User Rating
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DVD Release Date
• R1: Sep 11, 2001
MPAA Rating
Rated PG-13 for some thematic material.
Running Time
1 hour, 38 minutes
Country USA, UK
Studio Avenue Pictures
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Other Titles
• Wit
• W;t (2001)
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Genre: Drama, Doctor
Tagline: It appears to be a matter of life and death.
Plot: Margaret Edson's Pulitzer-winning script is faithfully adapted to the small screen by director Mike Nichols and star Emma Thompson in this HBO special. Thompson plays Vivian Bearing, a professor of 17th Century poetry specializing in "the Holy Sonnets of John Donne." The intellect is everything to Vivian--which is why, when she is diagnosed with stage four ovarian cancer--"there is no stage five"--she agrees to undergo aggressive chemotherapy in the name of cancer research. "You must be very tough," her doctor tells her, and Vivian is nothing if not tough--a tough professor who is tough on her students. Yet as her treatment--and her cancer--progresses, Vivian finds that what she needs most isn't the cold rationality with which she's lived her whole life and which is amply evidenced by the hospital staff attending her, but the simple human kindness shown by her primary nurse and her former mentor. This beautiful meditation on death and humanity is shot in close-ups that linger on Emma Thompson's spare, emotionally naked performance. Nichols's sure-handed direction brings out both the script's own wit and its poignancy.
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Emma Thompson
Love Actually, Sense and Sensibility, Much Ado About Nothing |
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Emma Thompson
Love Actually, Sense and Sensibility, Much Ado About Nothing |
| Christopher Lloyd
Back to the Future, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Back to the Future Part II |
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It Runs in the Family, Annie, The Best Thief in the World | | Harold Pinter
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