Wit
by Mike Nichols
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Actor: Audra McDonald, Christopher Lloyd, Eileen Atkins, Emma Thompson, Jonathan M. WoodwardDirector: Mike Nichols
Brand: Warner Brothers
Writer: Emma Thompson
Writer: Mike Nichols
Producer: Cary Brokaw
Producer: Charles F. Ryan
Producer: Julie Lynn
Producer: Michael Haley
Writer: Margaret Edson
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 99 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2001-09-11
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Hbo Home Video
Movie Reviews of Wit
Movie Review: Brilliance on all sides
Summary: 5 Stars
It seems to me that certain matters can be understood, that is to say, experienced at arms length back here where it's safe, only with art. If your loved one dies of a terrible progressive illness, you know the experience intimately. Yet understanding may take awhile, if it ever comes. If you yourself are desperately ill, you live in a cocoon of pain, embarrassment, fear and anger. You experience this only to the degree your mental capacity remains unimpaired. Understanding your experience may be a low priority. Yet, this film, like the ennui of Waiting for Godot, or the visual assault of Jackson Pollack, the cynicism of Lolita, or the anguish of Mahler's last adagio, sends us flying - transported to a place where we have, finally, an understanding, a closure. This film is a quiet little diamond - you can look at it from any angle and find not suffering, not degradation, but transcendent light. The greatest art shows us how rich life can be.
Summary of Wit
Vivian bearing is a disciplined english professor who finds her rational approach to live overturned when she is diagnosed with cancer. No longer a teacher but a subject for others to study vivian is about to discover a fine line between life and death that can only be walked with wit. Studio: Hbo Home Video Release Date: 06/01/2004 Starring: Emma Thompson Christopher Lloyd Run time: 99 minutes Rating: Nr Director: Mike NicholsDeservedly hailed as one of the best films of 2001, Wit makes it clear why top-ranking talents seek refuge in the quality programming of HBO. Unhindered by box-office pressures, director Mike Nichols and Emma Thompson turn the most unglamorous topic--the physical and psychological ravages of cancer--into an exquisite contemplation of life, learning, and tenacious, richly expressed humanity. In adapting Margaret Edson's compassionate, Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Nichols and Thompson open up the one-room setting with a superb supporting cast. But their focus remains on the hospital experience of Vivian (Thompson), a fiercely demanding professor of English literature whose academic specialty--the metaphysical poetry of John Donne--is the armor she wears against the cruel indignities of her cancer treatment. While losing all that she held dear, she reassesses her life as an aloof intellectual, and Wit illuminates her bracingly eloquent and deeply moving struggle for dignity, meaning, and peace at life's ultimate crossroads. --Jeff Shannon
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