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SYNOPSIS __________
Plot:
Evening unites a stellar cast, and is based on the beloved
novel by Susan Minot and adapted for the screen by Ms. Minot
and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Cunningham (The
Hours), under the direction of LAJOS KOLTAI (Fateless), who
was previously an Academy Award-nominated cinematographer.
Evening is a deeply emotional film that illuminates the timeless
love which binds mother and daughter - seen through the prism
of one mother's life as it crests with optimism, navigates
a turning point, and ebbs to its close. Two pairs of real-life
mothers and daughters - Vanessa Redgrave and Natasha Richardson,
and Meryl Streep and Mamie Gummer - portray, respectively,
a mother and her daughter and the mother's best friend at
different stages in life.
Overcome by the power of memory, Ann Lord (VANESSA REDGRAVE)
reveals a long-held secret to her concerned daughters; Constance
(NATASHA RICHARDSON), a content wife and mother, and Nina
(TONI COLLETTE), a restless single woman. Both are bedside
when Ann calls out for the man she loved more than any other.
But who is this "Harris," wonder her daughters,
and what is he to our mother?
While Constance and Nina try to take stock of Ann's life
and their own lives, their mother is tended to by a night
nurse (EILEEN ATKINS) as she journeys in her mind back to
a summer weekend some fifty years ago, when she was Ann Grant
(CLAIRE DANES) - a young woman who has come from New York
City to be maid of honor at the high-society Newport wedding
of her dearest friend from college, Lila Wittenborn (MAMIE
GUMMER). The bride-to-be is jittery, and turns to her maid
of honor rather than her own mother (GLENN CLOSE) for support.
Ann stays close to her friend, yet is even closer to Lila's
irrepressible brother Buddy (HUGH DANCY).Unexpected feelings
surge forth once Ann meets wedding guest Harris Arden (PATRICK
WILSON), a lifelong friend and intimate of the Wittenborn
family. Ann's love for Harris will change her life, and those
of her daughters, forever.
DETAILS__________
Studio:
Focus Features
Production Co:
Hart Sharp Entertainment
Release Date:
June 29, 2007
RELATED LINKS__________
Wikipedia - Movie Info
en.wikipedia.org
Wikipedia - Director Info
en.wikipedia.org
Official Site - Production Site
www.hartsharp.com
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