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Wit is a 2001 American television drama film directed by Mike Nichols. The teleplay by Nichols and Emma Thompson is based on the 1999 Pulitzer Prize-winning play of the same title by Margaret Edson. The film was shown at the Berlin International Film Festival on February 9, 2001 before being broadcast by HBO on March 24.
- Drama
Mar 24, 2001 · Emma Thompson stars as a professor with terminal ovarian cancer who reflects on her life and death through Shakespeare's sonnets. Directed by Mike Nichols, this 2001 drama won three Primetime Emmys and received critical acclaim.
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- Drama
- Mike Nichols
- 2001-03-24
Jul 7, 2015 · A review of the 2001 HBO film adaptation of Margaret Edson's Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Wit, about a professor with ovarian cancer. The review explores the themes of the film, the use of flashbacks and the semicolon, and the interview with the playwright.
Wit. Professor Vivian Bearing (Emma Thompson), an expert on the work of 17th-century British poet John Donne, has spent her adult life contemplating religion and death as literary...
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- Mike Nichols
- PG-13
- Emma Thompson
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Currently you are able to watch "Wit" streaming on Max, Max Amazon Channel. Synopsis A renowned professor is forced to reassess her life when she is diagnosed with terminal ovarian cancer.
- 99 min
Two-time Oscar-winner Emma Thompson ("Howards End," :Sense and Sensibility") stars as Vivian Bearing, a single-minded professor, who in the face of imminent death learns the power and importance of simple acts of human kindness.
