Evening
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Movie Synopsis: Evening is an emotional film that illuminates the timeless love which binds mother and daughter – seen through the prism of one mother’s life as it crests with optimism, navigates a turning point, and ebbs to its close. Two pairs of real-life mothers and daughters – Vanessa Redgrave and Natasha Richardson, and Meryl Streep and Mamie Gummer – portray, respectively, a mother and her daughter and the mother’s best friend at different stages in life.
Overcome by the power of memory, Ann Lord (Redgrave) reveals a long-held secret to her concerned daughters; Constance (Richardson), a content wife and mother, and Nina (Toni Collette), a restless single woman. Both are bedside when Ann calls out for the man she loved more than any other.
But who is this 'Harris', wonder her daughters, and what is he to our mother? While Constance and Nina try to take stock of Ann’s life and their own lives, their mother is tended to by a night nurse (Eileen Atkins) as she journeys in her mind back to a summer weekend some fifty years ago, when she was Ann Grant (Claire Danes)…
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I watched this movie last night, and for some reason, I stupidly didn't realize how it would affect me. My sister and I cared for our mother as she died a few years ago, and this movie hit VERY close to home, triggered a crying jag like I haven't had in quite some time. It was a wonderful movie though, and Claire Danes, as always, was luminous.