Wit (2001)

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• Jennifer X

  
  I've seen this twice and I loved it both times. It's a real emotional kick in the pants, especially the orange popsicle scene right before the DNR climax. Also, Jonathan Woodward is absurdly good looking in this film, though he is not usually in other things he does.

• jay n

  
  Beautiful work by Emma Thompson and Audra McDonald but profoundly sad. More to be appreciated than enjoyed. Lovely cameo by Eileen Atkins.

• Leigh R

  
  Wow...

• Alec B

  
  In the great tradition of tv movies, this is one of the better ones I've seen. Emma Thompson gives her best performance as a professer of John Donne poetry who is dieing of cancer. The film may move too quickly (it was based on a play and I think a lot was cut) but there are some… More
  In the great tradition of tv movies, this is one of the better ones I've seen. Emma Thompson gives her best performance as a professer of John Donne poetry who is dieing of cancer. The film may move too quickly (it was based on a play and I think a lot was cut) but there are some beautiful moments, as when a former teacher comes to visit Thompson's character on her last few hours and reads The Runaway Bunny, and refers to it as a analogy for the soul. Also the use of Donnes poetry (seeing as how the man always wrote of death) as a way to come to terms with everything is very powerful. It's a very sad and moving film.

• Brian R

  
  This is a great movie. Tender, captivating, and sometimes funny. Makes you really care and as humans we shouldn't really take life just for granted.

• Tobias X

  
  If this made for TV pic had only gotten a limited release in N.Y. and L.A., I believe Emma Thompson would have swept every actress award from every American ceremony. Her performance in it is by far the best performance by a woman in 2001. <br/> <br/>WIT for me is… More
  If this made for TV pic had only gotten a limited release in N.Y. and L.A., I believe Emma Thompson would have swept every actress award from every American ceremony. Her performance in it is by far the best performance by a woman in 2001. <br/> <br/>WIT for me is director Mike Nichols' most instinctive and engrossing directing since CARNAL KNOWLEDGE (1971). It's also one of his better film adaptations of a stage play. Very humorous and very heartbreaking at the same time.

• Sunil J

  
  Emma Thompson is amazing in one of the very first HBO movies.

• Leo L

  
  Great film!

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