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Claire Danes, Eileen Atkins, Glenn Close, Hugh Dancy, Mamie Gummer
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 dire...( read more
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What an absolutely beautiful story! A mother on her death bed retracking her life - a life that neither of her grown up daughters have ever known about.
Didn't grab me, emotionally, like "The Notebook", but it is still worth seeing for the believable characters and fine performances.
Thought I'd love this but no, it was slow and borin and I realised that Claire Danes gets paid the most money in the world for rollin her eyes in every movie and callin it actin. Inconsequential, self-indulgent and badly scored.
I've always loved films of discovery. In this movie, two daughters discover who their mom loved as a young woman - and develop a feeling for how significant that relationship was and still is for their mom.
This movie is frustrating however in that we watch through over two hou...( read more)
you'd think with the cast it would be a lot better, but no matter how much money and hours you put into a film you can never beat a bad script
Plot: 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 ...( read more)
M.S appaires last few minutes. During all film we are asking where she is. U will see her. Don't worry.
Beautiful and emotional. In general, good movie, great cast and performances
