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Wit (2001)
Director: Mike Nichols
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
An HBO adaptation of Margaret Edson's Pulitzer-winning play in which a respected professor of 17th century poetry (Thompson) diagnosed with ovarian cancer. She decides to treat the disease as a new challenge. For once, this is a terminal illness drama which refuses to resort to mushy melodrama. The downside is that it's also unremittingly grim, full of windy sermonising about John Donne's poetry, and Thompson's asides to camera rapidly begin to grate.Author: GM
Cast & crew
Director: Mike Nichols
Producer: Simon Bosanquet
Cast: Emma Thompson, Christopher Lloyd, Eileen Atkins, Audra McDonald, Jonathan M Woodward, Harold Pinter, Rebecca Laurie full cast
Duration: 99 mins
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