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I struggle with it, but I have gotten better at accepting it. This is why I found myself deeply affected by a small, somewhat forgotten film starring two legends of the film industry, dealing with their own mortality. The Whales of August, based on a play by David Berry and directed by Lindsay Anderson, is not a great film in and of itself ...
Mar 8, 2018 · The Whales of August An Interview with Michael Kaplan. As I cozied up on my couch to watch The Whales of August on a delightful winter day, I had no idea what to expect. Well, that’s not entirely true…I did know to expect Bette Davis and Lillian Gish, but that was about it. The plot of the movie is simple: two elderly sisters spend the ...
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The Whales of August is a 1987 American drama film directed by Lindsay Anderson and starring Bette Davis and Lillian Gish (in her final film appearance) as elderly sisters. Also in the cast were Ann Sothern as one of their friends, and Vincent Price as a peripheral member of the former Russian aristocracy.
- $1.3 million
- Carolyn Pfeiffer, Mike Kaplan
That is the story. As stories go, it is conventional enough, but in "The Whales of August," as in grand opera, the story is only the occasion for the performances. This film stars Lillian Gish and Bette Davis, and to cast those two actresses as the leads of the same movie is to make their very presences more important than anything else. This ...
Aug 19, 1987 · The Whales of August: Directed by Lindsay Anderson. With Bette Davis, Lillian Gish, Vincent Price, Ann Sothern. Two aged sisters reflect on life and the past during a late summer day in Maine.
- Lindsay Anderson
- 2 min
Aug 2, 2010 · As girls these two sisters used to watch always for the whales to return every August off the coast of their Maine home. But that was in the 1880’s and ‘90’s. Now it is the late 1940’s and our sisters have come near to the end of their long lives and no whales have been spotted in decades, although, Sarah, ever the optimist, continues ...
