Evening
- Director: Lajos Koltai
- Writer: Susan Minot; Michael Cunningham
- Producer: Michael Cunningham; Jill Footlick
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Watch and learn.
This is drama - done perfectly.
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The(ir) Blurb...
The 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. Overcome by the power of memory, Ann Lord reveals a long-held secret to her concerned daughters; Constance, a content wife and mother, and Nina, 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 as she journeys in her mind back to a summer weekend some fifty years before, when she was Ann Grant, 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.
Cast & Characters
Claire Danes as Ann Grant;
Toni Collette as Nina Mars;
Vanessa Redgrave as Ann Lord;
Patrick Wilson as Harris Arden;
Hugh Dancy as Buddy Wittenborn;
Natasha Richardson as Constance Haverford;
Mamie Gummer as Lila Wittenborn;
Eileen Atkins as The Night Nurse;
Meryl Streep as Lila Ross;
Glenn Close as Mrs. Wittenborn;
Ebon Moss-Bachrach as Luc;
Barry Bostwick as Mr. Wittenborn;
David Furr as Ralph Haverford;
Sarah Viccellio as Lizzie Tull;
Cheryl Lynn Bowers as Peach Howze