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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.
Mar 24, 2001 · Wit: Directed by Mike Nichols. With Emma Thompson, Christopher Lloyd, Eileen Atkins, Audra McDonald. A renowned professor is forced to reassess her life when she is diagnosed with terminal ovarian cancer.
Jul 7, 2015 · The adaptation, directed by Mike Nichols and starring Emma Thompson, tells the story of Dr. Vivian Bearing’s final weeks of life as she undergoes eight months of rigorous, and often painful, experimental treatment for Stage IV metastatic ovarian cancer.
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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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.
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.
