Official Movie Website Theatrical Release 06/29/07 Home Video Not Available MPAA Rating Rated PG-13 for some thematic elements, sexual material, a brief accident scene and language Running Time 1 hour 57 minutes Genre Drama Director Lajos Koltai Writer Michael Cunningham, Susan Minot Cast Claire Danes, Toni Collette, Vanessa Redgrave, Patrick Wilson, Natasha Richardson, Meryl Streep, Glenn Close Studio Focus Features |
EVENING
SYNOPSIS
Evening unites a stellar cast, and is based on the
beloved novel by Susan Minot and adapted for the
screen by Ms. Minot and Pulitzer Prize-winning
author Michael Cunningham (The Hours), under the
direction of Lajos Koltai (Fateless), who was
previously an Academy Award-nominated
cinematographer.
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. 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 (Ms.
Redgrave) reveals a long-held secret to her
concerned daughters; Constance (Ms. 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.
Evening unites a stellar cast, and is based on the
beloved novel by Susan Minot and adapted for the
screen by Ms. Minot and Pulitzer Prize-winning
author Michael Cunningham (The Hours), under the
direction of Lajos Koltai (Fateless), who was
previously an Academy Award-nominated
cinematographer.
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. 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 (Ms.
Redgrave) reveals a long-held secret to her
concerned daughters; Constance (Ms. 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.
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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)…
...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 (Ms. Gummer). The bride-to-be is jittery, and
turns to her maid of honor rather than her own mother (Glenn Close) for support. Ann stays close to her
friend, yet is even closer to Lila’s irrepressible brother Buddy (Hugh Dancy).
Unexpected feelings surge forth once Ann meets wedding guest Harris Arden (Patrick Wilson), a lifelong
friend and intimate of the Wittenborn family. Ann’s love for Harris will change her life, and those of her
daughters, forever. -- © Focus Features
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)…
...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 (Ms. Gummer). The bride-to-be is jittery, and
turns to her maid of honor rather than her own mother (Glenn Close) for support. Ann stays close to her
friend, yet is even closer to Lila’s irrepressible brother Buddy (Hugh Dancy).
Unexpected feelings surge forth once Ann meets wedding guest Harris Arden (Patrick Wilson), a lifelong
friend and intimate of the Wittenborn family. Ann’s love for Harris will change her life, and those of her
daughters, forever. -- © Focus Features
Brenda & David
A splendid cast including Vanessa Redgrave, Meryl Streep, Glenn Close, Toni Collette and Natasha
Richardson star in Evening based on Susan Minot's best selling novel. Young Ann (Claire Danes) is the
maid of honor at the wedding of her college friend, Lila (Mamie Gummer) set in the 1950's on the
Massachusett's coast. Lila is marrying out of duty and not love. She is really in love with Harris (Patrick
Wilson), son of the housekeeper but Harris seems to be taken with Ann. This is seen in flashbacks, as
elderly Ann (Redgrave) lies in her deathbed thinking about the one great love of her life (Harris) that got
away. She is being cared for by her daughters, Connie (Richardson) and Nina (Collette). Adapted for the
big screen by Susan Minot and Michael Cunningham (The Hours). Strong performances by all women but
the standouts are Claire Dane and Vanessa Redgrave. Young Lila was played by Mamie Gummer, Meryl
Streep's real-life daughter and Meryl played the older Lila. Natasha Richardson plays the daughter to her
real-life mother, Vanessa Redgrave. It's worth the price of admission just to see Streep and Redgrave
share the screen for the first time.
A splendid cast including Vanessa Redgrave, Meryl Streep, Glenn Close, Toni Collette and Natasha
Richardson star in Evening based on Susan Minot's best selling novel. Young Ann (Claire Danes) is the
maid of honor at the wedding of her college friend, Lila (Mamie Gummer) set in the 1950's on the
Massachusett's coast. Lila is marrying out of duty and not love. She is really in love with Harris (Patrick
Wilson), son of the housekeeper but Harris seems to be taken with Ann. This is seen in flashbacks, as
elderly Ann (Redgrave) lies in her deathbed thinking about the one great love of her life (Harris) that got
away. She is being cared for by her daughters, Connie (Richardson) and Nina (Collette). Adapted for the
big screen by Susan Minot and Michael Cunningham (The Hours). Strong performances by all women but
the standouts are Claire Dane and Vanessa Redgrave. Young Lila was played by Mamie Gummer, Meryl
Streep's real-life daughter and Meryl played the older Lila. Natasha Richardson plays the daughter to her
real-life mother, Vanessa Redgrave. It's worth the price of admission just to see Streep and Redgrave
share the screen for the first time.
