Evening

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Fiona M 10/23/2023 The cast was impeccable. The story flimsy and lacking anything to keep the viewer engaged in the lives of the characters. Great acting. Poor storyline. See more Kris G 03/18/2023 they killed buddy....wtf See more john e @EggmanATL 04/19/2022 My 2022 quest to see all Meryl Streep films continues. This time the film is "Evening". Take two Oscar winning iconic actors (Meryl Streep and Vanessa Redgrave)… pair them with their own real life actor daughters (Mamie Gummer and Natasha Richardson)… throw in even more award winning actors (Glenn Close, Toni Collette, and Claire Danes)… and you should have a monumental two-hour masterpiece. Or not. Anne Lord (Redgrave) is on her death bed and reliving a specific time in her past. Her daughters (Collette and Richardson) care for her as she wafts in and out of consciousness. Lord continues to mentally revisit a period in her youth (now portrayed by Danes) when she was close friends with Lila (Gummer) and Lila's family. Through them she met Harris (Patrick Wilson) a man with whom she would develop feelings and eventually have a one-night affair. And now, in her final hours of life, she wonders what would have happened had she had pursued a life with Harris. Glenn Close is magnificent as Lila's steely mother, and Hugh Dancy delivers an amazing performance as Lila's emotionally tortured brother, Buddy. Really, all the primary players deliver fine performances. Despite all the premiere acting though, the film just doesn't work. As Lord is breathing out her final hours, she's visited by Lila (now portrayed by Streep). Yet despite their previous close friendship, neither of Lord's daughters have met her. And Lord's daughters can't seem to figure out if they like each other, both bickering and believing the other is judging her. But saddest of all is that in her final hours, Lord is fixated on a man she barely knew from decades earlier in her life. I'm just not sure what I was supposed to garner from this film. Despite its wonderful cast, it was quite frankly a bore. It is a film that unfortunately gives "chick flicks" a bad reputation. See more Ęxçëşș M @ExcessMale 12/15/2021 Perhaps not all quality literature truly excels in cinematic format? This film should be far above average if the book has a story remotely worth telling. See more 05/23/2021 Should have been titled the Bug Snooze See more Frances H 05/20/2021 Again I must disagree with the critics--this film moved me, perhaps more than some audience members, because I am an ld woman myself and have begun to look back on my life, even though I am not terminally ill. I think that most of us who are old and have lived long lives do this on a fairly regular basis, because although death may not be something we face imminently at the moment, it will come sooner than we thought when we young. And though I'm getting closer to it, I don't think I'm obsessing over it as much as when I was young. I've seen more people die--my parents, my sister, aunts and uncles, and the first deaths in my life, my grandparents. Those deaths were not ones that I would wish lingered. Death as a release from pain is, I think not al together a bad thing when one is in pain. So looking back on one's memories, especially since there are so many of them, is something old people do, and can even find comfort in. As Simon and Garfunkel sang, "How terribly satang to be 70," the age I am right now. There are many things I wish I had done differently or not done at all, but the past can never be changed. So, as the night nurse said, "Remember being happy." A lot of wisdom in that! See more Read all reviews

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