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      The Wife

      2017, Drama, 1h 40m

      233 Reviews 1,000+ Ratings

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      The Wife relies on the strength of Glenn Close's performance to drive home the power of its story -- and she proves thoroughly, grippingly up to the task. Read critic reviews

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      Movie Info

      Joan and Joe remain complements after nearly 40 years of marriage. Where Joe is casual, Joan is elegant. Where Joe is vain, Joan is self-effacing. And where Joe enjoys his very public role as the great American novelist, Joan pours her considerable intellect, grace, charm and diplomacy into the private role of a great man's wife. As Joe is about to be awarded the Nobel Prize for his acclaimed and prolific body of work, Joan starts to think about the shared compromises, secrets and betrayals.

      Cast & Crew

      Glenn Close
      Jonathan Pryce
      Christian Slater
      Annie Starke
      Harry Lloyd
      Max Irons
      Alix Wilton Regan
      Jane Anderson
      Gero Bauknecht
      Nina Bisgaard
      Florian Dargel
      Tomas Eskilsson
      Steve Golin
      Hugo Grumbar
      Tim Haslam
      Ulf Brantås
      Gerd Schepers
      Lena Dahlberg
      Jocelyn Pook
      Mark Leese

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      • Feb 01, 2019

        The movie certainly has interesting criticisms of male ego, although I wish it had little more wit and venom. The reason to see this is for Close, a single look from her conveys a thousand emotions. It's a remarkable performance.

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      • Jan 15, 2019

        THE WIFE (3 Stars) If Glenn Close wins the Oscar for this, it will be well-deserved and not the Al Pacino/SCENT OF A WOMAN award for past legendary performances. She holds a master class in controlled, silent rage in a film which, unfortunately, would have been better realized as a stage play. The 11th hour on-the-nose dialogue feels like a misstep, but what comes before works so well in showing off a thoughtful, true, unexpected study of a life subjugated to a man who got to coast.

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      • Dec 10, 2018

        "There's nothing more dangerous than a writer whose feelings have been hurt." The Wife is one of those movies you'll want to watch again as soon as you finish it the first time if not for how intense or fascinating it is, but for the delicately layered elements of perception versus reality that both Glenn Close and Jonathan Pryce convey over the course of it. The Wife may look like your typical stuffy, Oscar drama fueled solely by the performances of its illustrious lead and while it most definitely is all of those things it also turns out to be much more than this; a searing portrait of intimacy and how as much between two people can be both the most familiar and painful thing in ones life. Bonus points for good turns from Christian Slater and Max Irons. Bonus bonus points for having Annie Starke, Close's real-life daughter, beautifully portray the younger version of Close's Joan. The way Starke compliments her mothers performance hammers home the personal betrayal at the heart of the film.

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      • Nov 17, 2018

        Despite two strong performances by Glenn Close and Jonathan Pryce, this is a frustrating drama that starts well enough but soon gives in to clichés and unnecessary melodrama before going as far as to remove the protagonist's agency with plot choices that are in fact quite revolting.

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