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Movie Info. Two elderly sisters, Libby Strong (Bette Davis) and Sarah Webber (Lillian Gish), travel to their summer house in Maine. The pair couldn't be less similar: Libby is blind, cynical and...
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Summaries. Two aged sisters reflect on life and the past during a late summer day in Maine. It's August. Like they have most summers, elderly widowed sisters Libby Strong and Sarah Webber, who live in Philadelphia, are staying together in the family's summer cottage on an island off the coast of Maine. The cottage, which now belongs to Sarah ...
The gentle, delicate, reflective drama The Whales of August (1987) brings two film legends together on screen for the first time. Based on the play by David Berry, who scripted the screen adaptation, it is a small, intimate story about two widowed sisters spending the summer together in the vacation home owned by Sarah (Lillian Gish) but ...
Two elderly sisters live together in a cottage in Maine with ever patient Gish forced to care for blind and irascible Davis. 705 1 h 30 min 1987. X-Ray 13+. Drama · Optimistic · Sentimental · Touching. Watch with a free Prime trial. Watch with Prime. Start your 30-day free trial.
YouTube. 0:00 / 1:31:05. Screen legends Bette Davis and Lillian Gish united their iconic talents in director Lindsay Anderson's intensely emotional 1987 drama, THE WHALES OF AUGUST, ...
The Whales of August (1987) Not Rated | Drama. Watch options. Official Trailer. Two aged sisters reflect on life and the past during a late summer day in Maine.
Thriller. The Whales of August is a 1987 American drama film directed by Lindsay Anderson and starring Bette Davis and Lillian Gish as elderly sisters. Also in the cast were Ann Sothern as...
