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Oct 11, 2007 · Using sympathy and tenderness for its characters, “Away From Her” tells the story of a marriage that drifts out of the memory of the wife, and of the husband’s efforts to deal with that fact. We have two Canadian women to thank for this film: the writer and director, Sarah Polley (born 1979), and the author of the short story that ...
Summaries. A man coping with the institutionalization of his wife because of Alzheimer's disease faces an epiphany when she transfers her affections to another man, Aubrey, a wheelchair-bound mute who also is a patient at the nursing home. Grant and Fiona Anderson have been married for forty-four years.
Plot. Grant and Fiona are a retired married couple living in rural Brant County, Ontario. Fiona begins to lose her memory, and it becomes apparent she has Alzheimer's disease.
- $9.1 million
Jun 20, 2019 · Summary: The film addresses a timely subject matter: the onset of Alzheimer’s disease – increasingly prevalent in an ageing North American population – and its impact on the personal life of a married couple. Fiona and Grant face the gradual unravelling of their life together when her memory begins to fail. She gets lost near
May 25, 2007 · With Gordon Pinsent, Stacey LaBerge, Julie Christie, Olympia Dukakis. A man coping with the institutionalization of his wife because of Alzheimer's disease faces an epiphany when she transfers her affections to another man, Aubrey, a wheelchair-bound mute who also is a patient at the nursing home.
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- Drama
- Sarah Polley
- 2007-05-25
Long married, Fiona (Julie Christie) and Grant (Gordon Pinsent) find their mutual devotion tested by her struggle with Alzheimer's disease. When it becomes apparent that the condition is...
- (144)
- Drama
- PG-13
For 30 days, he’s not allowed to see her. She needs the time to settle in, the home’s director says. Grant makes it through that difficult month with the help of daily phone calls to a kind nurse named Kristy, who breaks the always-bad news about Alzheimer’s to him as gently as possible.