Screenwriters Susan Minot and fellow novelist Michael Cunningham make key changes to Minot's acclaimed 1997 book with mixed results; the alterations streamline the story and enrich subplots, but dilute its all-important central relationship.
As she lies dying in her upstairs bedroom, twice-married Ann Lord (Vanessa Redgrave) drifts in and out of consciousness, watched over by an imperious Irish night nurse (Eileen Atkins) who helps relieve her pain with morphine. Ann awakens long enough to mistake her younger daughter Nina (Toni Collette) for her eldest, Constance (Natasha Richardson), and mumbles something about a man named "Harris" before slipping back in...
Released:
2007
Rated:
PG-13
Length:
117 mins