Evening

Director Lajos Koltai teams with Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Cunningham to adapt author Susan Minot’s best-selling novel exploring the romantic past and emotional present of a woman who recalls 50 years of life and love as she lies on her death bed in the company of her daughters. Ann Grant (Vanessa Redgrave) has lived a rich and rewarding life, but now the time has come for her to leave this world behind. As Ann’s two daughters, Constance (Natasha Richardson) and Nina (Toni Collette), rush to their mother’s bedside, the moribund matriarch recalls the defining romance she shared with a handsome young man (Patrick Wilson) 50 years prior. Claire Danes stars as Redgrave’s youthful counterpart in this romantic drama that proves that even the briefest of loves can offer enough memories to fill a lifetime., Star-studded and stunningly poignant saga of a dying woman (Vanessa Redgrave) reflecting on the tragic love of her life. Toni Collette and Natasha Richardson (Redgrave’s offspring) portray her daughters, and Meryl Streep costars as Redgrave’s friend. Streep’s real-life daughter, Mamie Gummer, plays Streep as a young woman. Directed by Lajos Koltai, and written by Michael Cunningham and Susan Minot, who adapted her bestselling novel., Director: Lajos Koltai. As Ann Grant lays dying, she remembers, and is moved to convey to her daughters, Constance and Nina, the defining moments in her life 50 years prior, when she was a young woman. Harris is the man Ann loves in the 1950s and never forgets., Adaptation of Susan Minot’s novel about a dying woman’s memories of a complex romantic situation from her youth in 1950s Rhode Island.