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27 April 2007 (UK) moreTagline:
It's never too late to become what you might have been morePlot:
A man coping with the institutionalization of his wife because of Alzheimer's disease faces an epiphany when she transfers her affections to another man, Aubrey, a wheel chair-bound mute who also is a patient at the nursing home. full summary | add synopsisAwards:
Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 39 wins & 16 nominations moreNewsDesk:
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Film of the Young Year more (94 total)Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Gordon Pinsent | ... | Grant Anderson | |
| Stacey LaBerge | ... | Young Fiona | |
| Julie Christie | ... | Fiona Anderson | |
| Olympia Dukakis | ... | Marian | |
| Deanna Dezmari | ... | Veronica | |
| Clare Coulter | ... | Phoebe Hart | |
| Thomas Hauff | ... | William Hart | |
| Alberta Watson | ... | Dr. Fischer | |
| Grace Lynn Kung | ... | Nurse Betty | |
| Lili Francks | ... | Theresa | |
| Andrew Moodie | ... | Liam | |
| Wendy Crewson | ... | Madeleine Montpellier | |
| Judy Sinclair | ... | Mrs. Albright | |
| Tom Harvey | ... | Michael | |
| Carolyn Hetherington | ... | Eliza |
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110 minCountry:
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1.85 : 1 moreSound Mix:
Dolby DigitalCertification:
Switzerland:7 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:7 (canton of Vaud) | USA:PG-13 | South Korea:12 | Netherlands:6 | Germany:o.Al. | UK:12A | Singapore:PG | Argentina:13 | Canada:G (Québec) | Canada:PG (Alberta/British Columbia/Nova Scotia/Ontario) | Singapore:NC-16 (DVD rating) | Brazil:12 | Chile:TEFun Stuff
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Writer-director Sarah Polley had intended her feature film debut to be based on a script she wrote about a 12-year-old actress starring on a television series. She was unable to get the project green lighted, and turned to another, an adaptation of one of her favorite short stories, Alice Munro's "The Bear Came Over the Mountain". The story deals with a couple in their Sixties coping with the wife's Alzheimer's disease. moreGoofs:
Factual errors: When Frank, the former hockey play-by-play man, is announcing the Philadelphia Flyers-Toronto Maple Leafs game that's playing on television, at the finish of the game he gives the name of the Flyers coach as "Phil" Hitchcock; the Flyers coach in 2003 (when this movie is set) is actually named Ken Hitchcock. moreQuotes:
Kristy: And, how old were you when you met?Grant Anderson: She was 18.
Kristy: Holy! That's pretty young to get married, eh?
Grant Anderson: Wasn't my idea.
Kristy: You mean she proposed to you? Well, that's lovely, that's what I think. How'd she do it?
Grant Anderson: She hadn't planned it necessarily. We were in Tobermory, waiting for the ferry to Manitoulin, and it was miserable and rainy, and she was in a good mood. And, she didn't want any part of my sour mood.
Kristy: What'd she do, what'd she say?
Grant Anderson: Well, she said: "Do you think it'd be fun... Do you think it'd be fun if we got married?"
Kristy: And what did you say?
Grant Anderson: I took her up on it. I shouted yes.
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Prelude in C, from 'Das Wohltemperierte Clavier', Book One (BWV 846) moreFAQ
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When it comes to "Away from Her," the overused, abused adjective cannot be avoided: it is a great film.
Sarah Polley's film grips, holds, moves, thrills; you will think and talk about it, remember the story and the characters indefinitely - which could well serve as a dictionary definition of "great film." All this from a 27-year-old first-time director!
You will see advertising and hear talk about "the one with Julie Christie having Alzheimer's," but that describes "Away from Her" no better than saying "Hamlet" is about a man who cannot make up his mind. Yes, Fiona, Christie's character, is in the beginning stages of Alzheimer's, but the actress - as beautiful as ever and in her greatest role here - creates a complex, full figure, with good moments and bad ones, with intelligence, warmth, carrying regrets and hurts with grace. The outstanding Canadian actor Gordon Pinsent is Grant, Fiona's loving husband for long, rich decades, albeit with their share of problems.
As the story unfolds, Grant and Fiona face the obvious, the inevitable, but for the audience, there is nothing obvious or inevitable about the way things happen. Polley's writing is Stoppardian in its complexity and brilliance - there is nothing predigested and Hollywoodish here, only life and people as infinitely complex as the human brain. Even as it deteriorates, the brain - and the film about this tragic process - retains its surprises and wonders, and to the very last scene of "Away from Her," you cannot sit back and assume you know what will happen. You don't; the film's unpredictability is one of its great assets.
Add to Polley's script (based on Alice Munro's "The Bear Came Over the Mountain") and direction, to Christie's and Pinsent's magnificent individual and ensemble acting, a cast to treasure. Olympia Dukakis and Michael Murphy play a couple whose lives unexpectedly intertwine with Grant and Fiona's. Kristen Thomson steals whole scenes from the principals as the head nurse at the institution where Fiona is placed; warm, supportive, nurturing and altogether wonderful, the nurse has one quick exchange in which she shows another side and another attitude - and this slight "glitch" makes the character even more real and sympathetic.
"Away from Her" is not a tragedy, it's a drama, which moves and uplifts. It includes charming and funny moments, but even the humor has depth. In one scene, as she is watching TV news from Iraq, Alzheimer's patient Fiona exclaims: "How could they forget Vietnam?!"