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A renowned professor is forced to reassess her life when she is diagnosed with terminal ovarian cancer.
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Mike Nichols
Director, Writer
- Margaret Edson Writer
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Emma Thompson
Writer
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Henryk Mikolaj Gorecki
Composer
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If you recall the "Paper Chase" (1973) you'll be familiar with the concept of a hard-nosed academic who teaches students with a barely veiled sense of contempt and ruthlessness. Well skip on almost three decades and it's Emma Thompson's "Vivian" who rules her class of English literature students with a similarly unforgiving rod of iron. Then she starts to feel a bit ropey and after a visit to her doctor (Christopher Lloyd) is told she has a metastatic ovarian cancer that is going to need one hell of a brutal chemotherapy treatment if she is to have any chance at all of survival. Attended now by "Jason" (Jonathan M. Woodward) a former pupil who claims to have revelled in her John Donne classe…
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