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DVD Details
- Rated: PG-13
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 1 hours, 39 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: September 11, 2001
- Originally Released: 2001
- Label: HBO Home Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Emma Thompson, Christopher Lloyd & Eileen Atkins | |
Performer: | Audra McDonald, Harold Pinter & John Woodward | |
Directed by | Mike Nichols | |
Screenwriting by | Mike Nichols & Emma Thompson | |
Produced by | Simon Bosanquet | |
Director of Photography: | Seamus McGarvey | |
Executive Production by | Cary Brokaw & Mike Nichols |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 86/100 --
Thompson gives a real tour-de-force performance, moving professor Bearing from bemusement to curiousity, fear to confusion, anger to anguish with skilful subtlety
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Cinemania
A shrewd and triumphant retooling of Margaret Edson's 1997 Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Wit tempers its harrowing tale of an English literary scholar's fierce fight against ovarian cancer with a strong strain of the title trait.
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Variety
A powerful drama about dying and death that will soften the heart of anyone who sees it.
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Spirituality and Practice
From the Margaret Edson play that deserved its Pulitzer Prize, Mike Nichols has made a television movie that deserves not only an Emmy but our baffled gratitude as well.
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New York Magazine/Vulture
...The Thompson-Nichols script is full of ironies and droll asides, delivered, of course, by an actress with few betters when it comes to delivering the gently mordant dialogue...
USA Today
Rating: 3/4 --
The dour subject matter and director Mike Nichols' unflinching approach may make this a difficult viewing, but it is rewarding.
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Product Description:
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.