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The Wife
Joan Castleman is a very smart woman who is the perfect wife who has spent forty years sacrificing her talents, ambitions and hopes for the happiness of her husband Joe. Joan bore so much to his betrayals and excuses. Joe will receive the Nobel Prize, the most expensive prize, but Joan seems to face a new wave of sacrifice in her life and career.
1 June 1947, Holywell, Flintshire, Wales, UK
19 March 1947, Greenwich, Connecticut, USA
7 August 1951, Hammersmith, London, England, UK
26 January 1986, London, England, UK
October 09, 2018
Six Oscar nominations later, the luminous Glenn Close leaves the audience awestruck with a performance that slowly simmers to a devastating climax.
September 01, 2018
I wish there were more movies like this one.
September 07, 2018
Other than the performances, there is nothing here audiences haven't seen more times than they have their own feet.
October 10, 2018
Too bad we don't buy any of it - not the initiating circumstances of the secret, nor any of its fallout.
October 11, 2018
The reason to see "The Wife" is to see Close in action.
October 15, 2018
A story whose dramatic weight falls on the shoulders of a sublime Glenn Close, who lends her saddest smile, her frown and her lost look to a woman who begins to claim her own voice. [Full review in Spanish]
September 20, 2018
With Glenn Close in the lead role, it's... unexpectedly poignant and powerful.
October 10, 2018
This is a career watershed for Glenn Close. As Joan, she plays a woman who has chosen to live a life of deception, which has with the passing of time become self-deceit.
September 10, 2018
The Wife is that increasingly rare offering, a commercially viable film that also makes you rethink your assumptions about talent and who gets to wield it.
September 06, 2018
Close owns this movie, from beginning to end; it's a performance of such intelligence and subtlety that only when the movie is long over do you start wondering about whether the plot holds up.
September 21, 2018
Watch Close's face in these early scenes; imagine what she's feeling because you will imagine something much different by the end.
October 15, 2018
The Wife starts off somewhat slowly, to the point where you wonder if anything is actually going to happen. Then, at the 50-minute mark, the "twist" of the story kicks in, and suddenly it becomes riveting.