WIT (WIDESCREEN)

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• Release Year: 2001
• Genre: Drama
• Plot: Based on the 1999 Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Margaret Edson WIT features the Academy Award winning actress Emma Thompson in a movie directed by Academy award winning director Mike Nichols. Vivian Bearing is an English professor with a biting wit that educates but also alienates her students. With her teaching and life both rigidly under control Vivian would never let down her defenses until the day comes when they are taken down for her. Diagnosed with a devastating illness Vivian agrees to undergo a series of procedures that are brutal extensive and experimental. For eight months her life must take an uncharted course. No longer a teacher but a subject for others to study. Vivian Bearing is about to discover a fine line between life and death that can only be walked with wit.
• Cast: Su Lin Looi, Raffaello Degruttola, Miquel Brown, Hari Dhillon, Benedict Wong, Alex Gregor, Lachele Carl, David Menkin, Rachel Siegel, Shauna Shim, Matt Blair, David Zayas, Tassia Messimeris, Norman Naudain, Emma Bernbach, Jenny Jules, Gary Beadle, Emma Thompson, Christopher Lloyd, Audra McDonald, Jonathan M. Woodward, Harold Pinter, Rebecca Laurie, Mike Nichols, Margaret Edson
• Director: Mike Nichols
• Runtime: 1:39
• Company: HBO
• Media Format: Movie