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Evening

  • 20072007
  • PG-13PG-13
  • 1h 57m
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6.4/10
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Evening (2007)
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A drama exploring the romantic past and emotional present of Ann Lord (Vanessa Redgrave) and her daughters, Constance Haverford (Natasha Richardson) and Nina Mars (Toni Collette). As Ann lay... Read allA drama exploring the romantic past and emotional present of Ann Lord (Vanessa Redgrave) and her daughters, Constance Haverford (Natasha Richardson) and Nina Mars (Toni Collette). As Ann lays dying, she remembers, and is moved to convey to her daughters, the defining moments in h... Read allA drama exploring the romantic past and emotional present of Ann Lord (Vanessa Redgrave) and her daughters, Constance Haverford (Natasha Richardson) and Nina Mars (Toni Collette). As Ann lays dying, she remembers, and is moved to convey to her daughters, the defining moments in her life fifty years ago, when she was a young woman. Harris Arden (Patrick Wilson) is the ... Read all
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    • Lajos Koltai
    • Susan Minot(screenplay)
    • Michael Cunningham(screenplay)
  • Stars
    • Vanessa Redgrave
    • Toni Collette
    • Claire Danes
    • Lajos Koltai
    • Susan Minot(screenplay)
    • Michael Cunningham(screenplay)
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    • Toni Collette
    • Claire Danes
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    • 45Metascore
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    Vanessa Redgrave and Natasha Richardson in Evening (2007)
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    Vanessa Redgrave
    Vanessa Redgrave
    • Ann Lord
    Toni Collette
    Toni Collette
    • Nina Mars
    Claire Danes
    Claire Danes
    • Ann Grant
    Patrick Wilson
    Patrick Wilson
    • Harris Arden
    Hugh Dancy
    Hugh Dancy
    • Buddy Wittenborn
    Natasha Richardson
    Natasha Richardson
    • Constance Haverford
    Mamie Gummer
    Mamie Gummer
    • Lila Wittenborn
    Eileen Atkins
    Eileen Atkins
    • The Night Nurse
    Meryl Streep
    Meryl Streep
    • Lila Ross
    Glenn Close
    Glenn Close
    • Mrs. Wittenborn
    Ebon Moss-Bachrach
    Ebon Moss-Bachrach
    • Luc
    Barry Bostwick
    Barry Bostwick
    • Mr. Wittenborn
    David Furr
    David Furr
    • Ralph Haverford
    Sarah Clements
    Sarah Clements
    • Lizzie Tull
    • (as Sarah Viccellio)
    Cheryl Lynn Bowers
    Cheryl Lynn Bowers
    • Peach Howze
    Chuck Cooper
    Chuck Cooper
    • Ray
    Timothy Kiefer
    • Karl Ross
    Jon DeVries
    • Deaver Ross
    • (as Jon Devries)
      • Lajos Koltai
      • Susan Minot(screenplay) (novel)
      • Michael Cunningham(screenplay)
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    • Trivia
      Mamie Gummer played the younger version of her real-life mother Meryl Streep, while Natasha Richardson played daughter to her real-life mother Vanessa Redgrave.
    • Goofs
      Ann points out her star, chosen by Buddy, to Harris as one of the Seven Sisters. The Seven Sisters is the Pleiades, which (in addition to Orion, which is also mentioned) is a winter constellation and could not possibly have been in the sky during the summer, when the wedding took place.
    • Quotes

      Harris Arden: I have to tell you something... I still know what stars are ours.

    • Connections
      Featured in Celebrated: Meryl Streep (2015)
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      Time After Time
      Written by Sammy Cahn and Jule Styne

      Arranged by Andy Farber

      Performed by Claire Danes, Patrick Wilson and Andy Farber & His Swing Mavens

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    Try to remember Gatsby.
    For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: "It might have been!" John Greenleaf Whittier

    Evening is dominated by regret, saturated so completely I regret having seen the film. Well, not quite, but rarely has a film had such an accomplished cast and high-class writing pedigree and disappointed me so thoroughly. The regret theme is hammered home so superficially I was driven to try to remember lines from The Great Gatsby to mitigate my growing anger at being treated by the filmmakers as if I could not endure subtlety or ambivalence.

    In other words, I got it from the first scene where Vanessa Redgrave looks out over her Newport memory at her young self (Claire Danes) and begins what have to be the easiest lines she's ever had playing an aging romantic: "Why didn't I marry Harris?" The variations on this theme in the movie are legion, even when it's not the young doctor, played by Patrick Wilson, whom her friend, Lila (Mamie Gummer—looking very much like her aunt, Meryl Streep), also regrets not marrying.

    One of my major problems is that it's never clear why these substantial women spent so much emotional coin on a character we never get to know, except for his Paul Newmanish good looks. But like the rest of the regret-laden characters, this film spends no dramatic coin on depth—all is skating on the surface, letting us do the sub-textual work rather than the dialogue. In the coda, Old Lila (Streep) makes an attempt at character deconstruction by saying about women, "We are mysterious creatures." Give me a break; could I have a bit more than platitude?

    A regrettable life is Buddy's (Hugh Dancy), Lila's drunken, poetic brother, who tries to prevent Lila from marrying the wrong man (not Buddy), whom Buddy loves also, but then this gay sub-theme is never explored beyond a drunken kiss. Nothing in this film is explored except maybe its shameless borrowing from Gatsby without a modicum of understanding that his loss was not just of a woman but of a class struggle, a dying age, and self worth. For Ann, it's just Harris.

    The cars are shiny period antiques, the house is beyond the reach of anyone in the audience, and the insights into smart women facing loss are none. Thank goodness for the arrival of evening, when the real stars are the lights in the firmament, not the rich wailing for their lost loves.
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    • jdesando
    • Jun 24, 2007

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      • June 29, 2007 (United States)
      • United States
      • Germany
      • CMC Movie (Taiwan)
      • Focus Features (United States)
      • English
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      • Newport, Rhode Island, USA
    • Production companies
      • Hart Sharp Entertainment
      • MBF Erste Filmproduktiongesellschaft
      • Twins Financing
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    • 1 hour 57 minutes
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