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Author:

Wit (Motion picture)

Title:

Wit [videorecording] / HBO Films presents an Avenue Pictures production ; a film by Mike Nichols ; directed by Mike Nichols ; screenplay by Emma Thompson & Mike Nichols ; produced by Simon Bosanquet.

Format:

[videorecording] /

Publisher:

HBO Home Video,

Copyright Date:

2001

Description:

1 videodisc (99 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Subject:

Cancer in women--Treatment--Drama.
Women college teachers--Drama.
English teachers--Drama.
Edson, Margaret,--1961---Film and video adaptations.
Feature films.
Medical drama (Films)
Medicine in motion pictures.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Other Authors:

Nichols, Mike.
Thompson, Emma.
Bosanquet, Simon, 1948-
Lloyd, Christopher, 1938-
Atkins, Eileen.
McDonald, Audra.
Woodward, Jonathan M.
Pinter, Harold, 1930-2008.
McGarvey, Seamus, 1967-
Bloom, John.
Roth, Ann, 1931-
Wurtzel, Stuart.
Edson, Margaret, 1961- Wit.
HBO Films.
Avenue Pictures.
HBO Video (Firm)

Notes:

Emma Thompson, Christopher Lloyd, Eileen Atkins, Audra McDonald, Jonathan M. Woodward, Harold Pinter. Originally released as a made-for-cable motion picture in 2001. Based on the 1999 Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Margaret Edson. Special features include: cast and director biographies ; chapter selection.

Summary:

An English professor, who alienates her students, has always had control over her life. That is until she is diagnosed with a devasting illness. She agrees to undergo a series of procedures that are brutal, extensive and experimental. She finds that the fine line between life and death can only be walked with wit.

ISBN:

9780783118413
0783118414

OCLC:

(OCoLC)47745305

UPC:

026359178122

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