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Evening | 
| Actors: Claire Danes, Toni Collette, Redgrave, Wilson
Studio: Universal Studios
Category: DVD
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Rating:  66 reviews
Sales Rank: 5047
Format: Ac-3, Color, Dolby, Dvd-video, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 117 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: 62033446
UPC: 025193344625
EAN: 0025193344625
ASIN: B000V6LSOA
Theatrical Release Date: June 29, 2007
Release Date: September 25, 2007
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Product Description
An all-star cast of the greatest actresses of our time - including Academy Award winner Vanessa Redgrave Academy Award winner Meryl Streep Toni Collette Claire Danes Natasha Richardson and Glenn Close - come together in this passionate and heartwarming story. As Ann (Redgrave) reflects on one beautiful and life-changing weekend with the one true love of her life her daughters (Collette and Richardson) come to their own understanding about the power of the past and the unbreakable bonds between mothers and daughters family and the loves of their lives.System Requirements:Running Time: 117 Mins. Genre: DRAMA Rating: PG-13 UPC: 025193344625
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A star-studded cast brings richness and texture to Evening, a lyrical tale of regret, unrequited love, and hope, written by novelists Susan Minot (Rapture) and Michael Cunningham (The Hours), based on Minot's book. Ann (Vanessa Redgrave) lies ill, deliriously remembering when she came to the summer home of her best friend Lila to be Lila's maid of honor (her younger self is played by Claire Danes). But the young Ann is soon caught between the hungry need of Lila's brother Buddy (Hugh Dancy) and the magnetic outsider Harris (Patrick Wilson). Meanwhile, the elderly Ann is watched by her two daughters, Nina (Toni Collette) and Constance (Natasha Richardson), who wrestle with unresolved feelings towards their mother, their choices in life, and each other. Evening starts off feeling a bit stiff and literary, but gradually finds its rhythm. While the emotional peaks and precious images feel inflated and hollow, the little ephemeral moments--the heartbreaks, yearnings, disappointments, and comforts, the flash of a smile or the widening of an eye--glimmer with warmth and honesty. It's rare that such restraint can be so compelling and so rewarding; Evening is well worth watching for the accumulating emotional power of these small moments. Also featuring Glenn Close and Meryl Streep. --Bret Fetzer Beyond Evening 
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 Moving October 5, 2007
Michele Cozzens (Cloud 8)
19 out of 22 found this review helpful
This story goes back and forth in time--through dreamlike memories of a dying woman--as she tries to piece together an important chapter of her life. Claire Danes plays the young "Ann" during a weekend in 1953 when she is the Maid of Honor at her best friend's wedding. There she meets a man, Harris, with whom she unexpectedly falls in love. Their moments together--what ultimately only seem like moments in a very long life--are romantic and memorable, and they forever have stars in the sky to remind them of one another after they travel separate paths through adulthood. For the aged Ann (played by Vanessa Redgrave), Harris was the one that got away.
Ann's adult daughters, (Toni Collette and Natasha Richardson) keeping vigil at her deathbed, clearly love their mother and were clearly loved by her. The daughters each face their own (relatively mundane) struggles, but struggles nonetheless, and want very much for their mother to provide the answers and continue to show them the way toward fulfillment.
This is a beautiful movie, and I recommend especially for mothers, daughters, sisters and best friends. I loved it.
From the author of "A Line Between Friends," McKenna Publishing Group.
An Evening of Magnetic Movie... September 29, 2007
S. Ilkay (California, United States)
36 out of 41 found this review helpful
Evening: A star-studded film from the director Lajos Koltai; a poetic master piece with Vanessa Redgrave, Glenn Close and Meryl Streep in towering roles. It tells the story of friendships, doomed relationships and secret loves that end with broken hearts. The story is being told like a water color painting set in 1950s upper class East Coast America.
The 'Evening' of life... January 4, 2008
Chrissy K. McVay (North Carolina)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Get ready for a good cry. This story will pull at your heart as we experience an elderly woman's trip down memory lane, lamenting over lost love and missed opportunities. A single weekend changes the entire course of a young woman's life and she grapples with 'what might've been' during the 'evening' of her life. Haunted by the memories while on her death bed, she manages to find peace with her choices when an old friend helps her to see that she truly did live 'a good life', and that's the best anyone can hope for.
Chrissy K. McVay - Author
"We Were All In Love With Harris" July 5, 2007
H. F. Corbin (ATLANTA, GA USA)
13 out of 16 found this review helpful
Based on the Susan Minot's novel by the same name with a screenplay written by her and Michael Cunningham (THE HOURS) and starring Meryl Streep, Vanessa Redgrave and Glenn Close, three of the best living actresses, EVENING would have to be worth seeing and indeed it is. Ann (Vanessa Regrave), bedridden, terminally ill and in and out of dementia, mumbles the word "Harris," a name unknown to both her grown daughters Constance (Natasha Richardson, Redgrave's own daughter) and Nina (Toni Collette). The audience soon learns, as the plot jumps back and forth between the present and the 1950's, that Harris (played by the young Kevin Costner look-alike Patrick Wilson) is someone that everybody was in love with, including the young Ann (Claire Danes) and her best friend Lila (Mamie Gummer), although both women married other men. Ann's daughters do not find out Harris' identity until late in the film.
Although the film is sentimental and predictable, it is saved by acting of the highest order. The friend I saw the movie with was blown away, in her words, by Redgrave's performance; but I, as always, was besotted by Ms. Streep who only appears near the end of the film in a very small role as the elder Lila-- she describes herself as an "old lady"-- but is, as always, perfect. (Watch her, for instance, as he descends the stairs with the caution that only an older person has.) Of course it is not difficult to see her as Lila in old age since her own daughter who bears an eerie resemblance to her of course plays the younger Lila. Glenn Close as the stylish matron and mother of Lila is wonderful. Buddy (Hugh Dancy) as Close's troubled and often inebriated son is good as well.
The film is about missed opportunities (see Ian McEwan's treatment of a similar theme in his latest novel ON CHESIL BEACH), first loves, settling for less, but at the end of life-- the elder Lila says that she has been both extremely happy and very unhappy-- it all seems to even out, at least in EVENING.
This is one of those movies that I liked much more the day after seeing it and upon recollection, a good sign that it indeed is a fine film.
Earthly Sojourn Flickers July 3, 2007
Lee Armstrong (Winterville, NC United States)
8 out of 10 found this review helpful
"Evening" entranced me from the first frame to the last. I found it an exquisite film about how memory and the experience of a life well lived flickers during a person's final days of earthly sojourn. The interweaving between past & present in Ann's mind, the questions her comments raise in her daughters, how children and parents love each other deeply while also being totally immersed in their own lives all rang with the voice of experience. Susan Minot is screenwriter based on her novel along with Michael Cunningham who worked on "The Hours."
This is an amazing group of talent that came together for this project. Between cast & production, they collectively have earned at least 5 Oscars and 32 Oscar nominations for their lifetime work. Hungarian director Lajos Koltai directs his second feature following Fateless. For years, he worked as a cinematographer that earned a Best Cinematography Oscar nomination for "Malena" in 2000. Gyula Pados who worked with Koltai on his previous directorial project serves as cinematographer here with stunning visual results. The present is cluttered & dowdy, but the past is elegant & beautiful. It seems just the way our minds would remember a more beautiful past. Jan A. P. Kaczmarek who won an Oscar for Best Score for Finding Neverland (Widescreen Edition) in 2004 does another outstanding job with the lovely score for this film. Allyson C. Johnson edits effectively, crosscutting between present & past in the film and never lingers overly long. Ann Roth costumed the film with Michelle Matland who had done "Freedomland." Roth earned her Best Costume Oscar for "The English Patient" with nominations for "The Hours," "The Talented Mr. Ripley" & "Places in the Heart." From the casual present to the elegant balls of the past, the costumes lend elegance to the actors.
The cast totally delivers as we see a pairing of generations. Natasha Richardson who was in Blow Dry & "Maid in Manhattan" and is the real-life daughter of Vanessa Redgrave plays Constance. She is the earthy, successful & practical daughter who waits bedside to assist her mother. Toni Collette who was nominated for an Oscar for "The Sixth Sense" in 1999 plays Nina, the wild daughter who seems too restless to settle down. The sisters bicker but ultimately love each other. Patrick Wilson who looks incredibly like Paul Newman and bared his bottom for "Little Children" plays Harris Arden, the guy who is so good looking, responsible and sensitive that he flutters the hearts of Ann & Lila. Young Lila is getting married, which causes all to gather for the most important evening of Ann's life. In her first film, Mamie Gummer (aka "Meryl Streep Jr.") plays the young Lila who is in love with Harris, but set to marry a more boring guy. Gummer does a great job, frequently reminding us of some of her mother's mannerisms. She flutters between the joyful bride to an acute case of cold feet. Claire Danes, who won the Golden Globe in 1993 for the TV series "My So-Called Life" and has been in films as diverse as Steve Martin's Shopgirl to "Terminator 3," plays young Ann. While there may not be the greatest physical resemblance between Redgrave & Danes, Claire captures the free spirit and artistic temperament that dares to dream. Hugh Dancey delivers a blockbuster performance as the unstable young Buddy, Lila's brother. Dancey was nominated for an Emmy for "Elizabeth I" & has appeared in "Blood & Chocolate," "Ella Enchanted" & "King Arthur." As Buddy Wittenborn, he is the rich kid who seems troubled and unhappy while trying to display a carefree playboy image. His errant kiss apparently sends him over the emotional edge. Glenn Close plays Mrs. Wittenborn, the socialite mother of the bride who tries to maintain complete control. Close has been nominated five times for Oscar for "The World According to Garp," "The Big Chill," "The Natural," "Fatal Attraction" & "Dangerous Liaisons." Her breakdown scene is short but riveting. Vanessa Redgrave won her Oscar for "Julia" in 1977 and has been nominated five other times from "Morgan" in 1966 to "Howard's End" in 1992. She plays the deathbed Ann as emotionally lucid despite a mind that is reviewing her life. It is an excellent performance. Near the end of the film, Meryl Streep who won Oscars for "Sophie's Choice" & "Kramer vs. Kramer" with a total of 14 nominations shows up as the older Lila to say goodbye to her friend. The scene is brief, punctuated by memory, but in each's eyes you can see worlds of experience. Eileen Atkins from "Cold Mountain," "The Hours," & "Gosford Park" plays the night nurse. Tony-award winner Barry Bostwick plays Glenn Close's husband. Together, these actors create an awesome ensemble.
I read some of the negative reviews and understand their points of view. But my experience of the film was that it was a breath of fresh air. In a typical summer of action pictures, this film is a delight because it celebrates the human experience in a very real way. Yes, most things in life will show up on film in different times and places, but "Evening" assembles its story and tells it originally & compellingly. Enjoy!
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