Directed by:
Richard EyreCinematography:
Roger PrattComposer:
James HornerCast:
Judi Dench, Kate Winslet, Jim Broadbent, Hugh Bonneville, Penelope Wilton, Nancy Carroll, Eleanor Bron, Kris Marshall, Samuel West, Juliet Aubrey (more)VOD (1)
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Biographical account of the life of existentialist author Iris Murdoch as recalled in the memoirs of her husband, Professor John Bayley. John (Hugh Bonneville) is a shy slightly goofy undergraduate at Oxford who falls for fellow student, the brilliant and charismatic Iris Murdoch (Kate Winslet). Against all the odds she returns his affection and so begins a love affair that will endure for over 40 years, amid the ups and downs of her achievements as a famous philosophical novelist. The film eventually flashes forward to the couple in older age, with John (Jim Broadbent) slowly realising that Iris (Dame Judi Dench) has a mental illness, one that threatens the existence of her personality, of the person he knows and loves. (Optimum Home Entertainment)
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