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Mood:
- ContemplativeEmotionalSincereBittersweetCleverGloomyWittyThought Provoking more...
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Plot:
- Human SpiritDoctors and PatientsTerminal IllnessLife is a BitchMind and SoulUnfulfillmentDealing With DeathIntrospection more...
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Genres:
- Drama
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Time/Period:
- Contemporary20th Century
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Place:
- USAHospital
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Praise:
- Critically Acclaimed
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Based on:
- Based on Play
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Attitudes:
- SeriousRealisticSlow
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Wit, 2001
English
USA
Profile of Wit
The mood of Wit is bittersweet, emotional, and contemplative. The plot centers around terminal illness, doctors and patients, and the human spirit. It is a drama movie. In approach, Wit is serious and realistic. The pacing is slow. It takes place, at least partly, in a hospital. Wit is set in the USA. It happens in the 20th century and in contemporary times. It is adapted from a play. Wit is known for being critically acclaimed.
Summary of Wit
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.
Details
| Language: | English |
| Country: | USA |
| Release date: | 24 March 2001 |
| Runtime: | 99 min |
Cast and Crew
as Vivian Bearing
as Dr. Harvey Kelekian
as Evelyn 'E.M.' Ashford
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- 20.September.2010
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