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Away from Her (2006)  link to Away from Her on IMDb  link to trailer on IMDb

Number: 207

poster Away from Her

IMDb Rating:
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7.6/10 (20268 votes)

Country: Canada, 110 minutes

Spoken Languages: English

Genre(s): Drama

Director(s): Sarah Polley

Storyline:
Grant and Fiona Anderson have been married for forty-four years. Their marriage has been a generally happy and loving one although not perfect due to some indiscretions when Grant was working as a college professor. Fiona has just been admitted to Meadowlake, a long term care facility near their country home in southwestern Ontario, because her recent lapses of memory have been diagnosed as a probable case of Alzheimer's disease. She and Grant made this decision together, although a still lucid Fiona seems to have made peace with the decision and her diagnosis more so than Grant. With respect to the facility, what Grant has the most difficulty with are what he sees as the sadness associated with the facility's second floor - where the more advanced cases are housed - but most specifically the facility's policy of no visitors within the first thirty days of admission to allow the patient to adjust more easily to their new life there. Based on what he sees when he is finally able to ...

Cast:

photo Gordon Pinsent Gordon Pinsent Grant Anderson
photo Julie Christie Julie Christie Fiona Anderson
photo Olympia Dukakis Olympia Dukakis Marian
photo Clare Coulter Clare Coulter Phoebe Hart
photo Thomas Hauff Thomas Hauff William Hart
photo Alberta Watson Alberta Watson Dr. Fischer
photo Grace Lynn Kung Grace Lynn Kung Nurse Betty
photo Andrew Moodie Andrew Moodie Liam
photo Wendy Crewson Wendy Crewson Madeleine Montpellier
photo Melanie Merkosky Melanie Merkosky Singing Nurse

Medium: Original DVD,

Loaned: No

Aspect ratio: 1.85:1