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Evening
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"Evening" is a deeply 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. Overcome by the power of memory, Ann Lord reveals a long-held secret to her concerned daughters: Constance, a contented wife and mother, and Nina, 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 as she journeys in her mind back to a summer weekend some 50 years ago, when she was Ann Grant--a young woman who has come from New York City to be maid of honor at the high-society Newport wedding of her dearest friend from college, Lila Wittenborn. The bride-to-be is jittery and turns to her maid of honor rather than her own mother for support. Ann stays close to her friend, yet is even closer to Lila's irrepressible brother Buddy. Unexpected feelings surge forth once Ann meets wedding guest Harris Arden, a lifelong friend and intimate of the Wittenborn family. Ann's love for Harris will change her life, and those of her daughters, forever.
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Meryl Streep (left), Vanessa Redgrave in Lajos Koltai's "Evening," a drifty, picturesque, painfully slow mishmash of memories.
A gathering of great actresses, to no good end
By Carrie Rickey, Inquirer Movie Critic
Posted 06/28/2007
Evening might be the most shocking waste of natural resources since the despoiling of the Amazon rain forest. Vanessa Redgrave, she of faraway eyes the color of moonlight, owlish hoot the sound of midnight. Claire Danes, she of the sunbeam smile and coltish canter. Toni Collette, the lines on whose panoramic forehead inscribe her as Our Lady of Perpetual Worry and Wonder. What riches! » Read more
MPAA rating:
PG-13
for some thematic elements, sexual material, a brief accident scene and language
Cast:
Claire Danes; Hugh Dancy; Toni Collette; Mamie Gummer; Patrick Wilson; Natasha Richardson; Vanessa Redgrave; Glenn Close; Meryl Streep; Eileen Atkins
Directed by:
Lajos Koltai
On the web:
 
Evening Official Site
Genre:
Drama
Running time:
01:57
Release date:
2007
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