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Clare Holman, Geoffrey Bayldon, Joanna McCallum

Tom is T.S. Eliot (Willem Dafoe), the St. Louis-born poet who tried to turn himself into an Englishman. Viv is his wife, Vivienne Haigh-Wood (Miranda Richardson). She's got money, which allows him to ...( read more  read more... )give up his job and focus on poetry. She urges him on, promotes him to the Bloomsbury group (which adopts him but looks down its nose at her), and begins to go slightly crazy. Is it Eliot's chilly demeanor (in a terrific repressed performance by Dafoe) that's driving her nuts, or something else? In fact, she suffers from misdiagnosed physical ailments, and a combination of drugs and alcohol send her around the bend. It's hard to get emotionally involved in Dafoe's Eliot or to really plug into this story, though Richardson's passion nearly pulls you in. --Marshall Fine

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PG-13, 115 min.

Directed by: Brian Gilbert

Release Date: December 2, 1994

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DVD Release Date: April 8, 2003

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Flixster Reviews (50)

  • RCCLBC
    June 10, 2008
    RCCLBC
    An great film. An amazing cast. A tragic love story.
  • ileo
    January 31, 2008
    ileo
    Brilliant!
  • khorace1
    July 6, 2008
    khorace1
    Excellent. Dafoe and Richardson are great together.
  • spleenylutheran
    November 23, 2007
    spleenylutheran
    As an Eliot fan, my favorite scene is where Tom & Viv are doing a reading of a then incomplete version of "The Waste Land."
  • dray5032
    July 8, 2007
    dray5032
    I thought it was brilliant
  • vrtualme
    June 10, 2007
    vrtualme
    vivienne basically gets locked away for having pms long before anyone knew what pms was. but it's still a good watch.
  • bertaelvis8
    May 4, 2007
    bertaelvis8
    a great story of T.S. Elliot and the hardship with his wife Viv. very well done.
  • zenmaster112
    April 19, 2007
    zenmaster112
    omg are they saying I should be locked away?
  • nanoqna
    January 11, 2007
    nanoqna
    this is all about betrayal!

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