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The Wife is a 2017 drama film directed by Björn L. Runge and written by Jane Anderson, based on the 2003 novel of the same name by Meg Wolitzer.
The Wife: Directed by Björn Runge. With Glenn Close, Jonathan Pryce, Max Irons, Christian Slater. A wife questions her life choices as she travels to Stockholm to see her husband receive the Nobel Prize for Literature.
In Swedish director Bjorn Runge’s film version of the 2003 Meg Wolitzer novel, the brilliant Glenn Close plays Joan Castleman, the wife of celebrated author Joe Castleman (Jonathan Pryce),...
It’s 1992 in wealthy coastal Connecticut. Pryce’s Joseph Castleman is awake in the middle of the night, unable to sleep out of nervous anticipation that he might get the call he’s been waiting for from Stockholm.
“The Wife” pulls off the not inconsiderable feat of spinning a fundamentally literary premise into an intelligent screen drama that unfolds with real juice and suspense.
A wife questions her life choices as she travels to Stockholm to see her husband receive the Nobel Prize for Literature. Behind any great man, there's always a greater woman - and you're about to meet her.
Where Joe is casual, Joan is elegant. Where Joe is vain, Joan is self-effacing. And where Joe enjoys his very public role as the great American novelist, Joan pours her considerable intellect ...
