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List Price: $14.98 | | Label: Universal Studios
Salesrank: 15621
Released: September 25, 2007 |
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MPAA Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
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.
Description of Evening:
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
Evening the novel by Susan Minot | 
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Stills from Evening (click for larger image) Evening Reviews:
Very Emotional and Powerful 
2009-11-18 - By the end of this movie, I was crying. Very emotional portrayal of a dying mother who has never gotten over her first love. The daughters also have their own dramas going on - with one coming to terms with an unexpected pregnancy. Kind of reminds me of Fried Green Tomatoes.
The only thing I didn't like about this movie was the "F" bomb that was dropped on us at the beginning. Quite unnecessary.
Evening 
2009-11-17 - Power-packed with superstar actresses, the concept is good, the individual acting is up to par yet something is missing in the story line and directing. It ends up being a trite chick-flick.
Enlightened me on aging 
2009-09-28 - I had expected this to be a "woman's" picture and had resigned myself to watching it to see Patrick Wilson whom I liked so much in "Passengers." But I was drawn into the film so much that by the end I was enthralled. I felt I was given a window into Vanessa Redgrave's soul and saw what it was like to age and die and realized how important it is to live now and do the best I can since our time flies so fast. When the movie was over, I started thinking of all the things I have not made time to do and considered when I am that old if I will regret my life or feel I made the most of each day.
Not an old woman 
2009-09-21 - If you are not an old woman, you will not like this movie. It was just terrible. The pacing was slow, the plot weak and the end, which I sat through the movie thinking would be a good sad payoff wasn't. Point of this review, if you are a guy, do not take the 2 hours of your life to watch this movie.
Beautiful to look at but lacks depth.
2009-08-06 - Evening starring Claire Danes plus an all-star cast is stunning visually but the story is less than impressive. The acting is excellent but the plot goes nowhere and it's difficult for the viewer to feel empathy for any of these self-centered characters. Hugh Dancy is the only character that you become invested with, he plays a troubled alcoholic who wears his raw emotions on his sleeve. The film shifts too much between the present day and the past, that frustrated me the most. The ending left me flat, it's a mixed bag for me.
