The Wife Movie 2021 Full Movie

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TheWife is a 2017 drama film directed by Bjrn L. Runge and written by Jane Anderson, based on the 2003 novel of the same name by Meg Wolitzer. It stars Glenn Close, Jonathan Pryce, and Christian Slater, and follows a woman (Close) who questions her life choices as she travels to Stockholm with her husband (Pryce),[4] who is set to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature.

The film premiered at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival on September 12, 2017,[5] and was theatrically released in the United States on August 17, 2018, by Sony Pictures Classics. It received generally positive reviews from critics, with Close's performance garnering widespread acclaim. She won the Golden Globe Award, Screen Actors Guild Award, Independent Spirit Award and Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Actress for her performance, and was also nominated for the Academy Award and BAFTA Award for Best Actress.

1992. Joseph Castleman wins the Nobel Prize in Literature, but his wife Joan seems strangely unhappy about it. Their adult son David, who idolizes his father, seeks critique of his first short story, which Joe keeps putting off. The trio flies to Stockholm as Nathaniel Bone, a biographer with a taste for scandal, tries to ingratiate himself with the Castlemans. Joan's unhappiness worsens as adulation is heaped on Joseph. His attempts to publicly thank her for supporting him embitter her further.

Smith College, 1958. Young Joan Archer, a college student and aspiring writer, is awed by her professor Joseph Castleman, a handsome, young, married man, and his force of personality and advice. Later, Joan meets a published alumna author whose cynical view of opportunities available to female writers disheartens her.

On the night of the Nobel ceremony, David confronts his parents after being told by Nathaniel that Joan is the real writer in the family. Joe and Joan deny everything. At the ceremony and the banquet which follows, Joan feels increasingly humiliated because Joe praises her as his support, his muse, his soul. She flees, and Joe follows her. He demands that she take his prize, but she refuses.

1960. Joe has been fired for having an affair with Joan, and his first attempt at writing a novel turns out very poorly. Joan, a secretary at a publishing house, observes how the all-male editors dismiss women writers. When Joan criticizes Joe's work, he threatens to end his relationship with her, claiming she cannot love "a hack". Joan agrees to fix Joe's novel for him. The work, titled The Walnut, is published and becomes a bestseller.

Stockholm, 1992. At their hotel, Joan tells Joe she is divorcing him. They argue violently, and Joe has a heart attack. Prostrate on the bed, he begs for Joan's love. She tells him she loves him; he calls her a good liar and dies moments later. On the Concorde flight back to the US, Nathaniel offers his condolences to Joan. She tells him that if he tries to print anything that undermines Joseph's reputation as a writer, she will sue him. David overhears her. Joan says she will tell David and his sister the truth when they get home. She then turns the page to the journal she had opened, runs her hand over a blank page, and looks up.

On May 16, 2014, it was reported that Glenn Close would star in an adaptation of the Meg Wolitzer novel The Wife. The film was directed by Bjrn Runge and written by Jane Anderson.[6] On January 30, 2015, Frances McDormand, Logan Lerman, Brit Marling, Jonathan Pryce, and Christian Slater were announced as having also been cast.[7] On October 19, 2016, Pryce and Slater's involvement was confirmed, and Elizabeth McGovern, Max Irons, and Close's daughter Annie Starke joined the cast, playing the roles originally set with McDormand, Lerman, and Marling, respectively; Harry Lloyd was also added.[8] Close approached Gary Oldman for the part of Joe Castleman but he was unavailable for the role. The Wife shot scenes in Glasgow,[9] Edinburgh, and Arbigland Estate in Dumfries.[10]

San Diego Reader writer Scott Marks gave the film one out of five stars and criticized the film's simplicity, writing: "It might not have been so bad had the road to the big reveal been paved with insight and originality, but other than the performances, there is nothing here audiences haven't seen more times than they have their own feet."[19] Writing for the Chicago Reader, Ben Sachs wrote: "Because the performances are so calculated, the emotional outbursts on which the story hinges fail to make a dramatic impact. And for a film about a novelist, The Wife conveys very little sense of what it's like to read or write."[20]

I wish we could simply dispense with a review and handle thingsthis way: You go see the movie, and then we'll sit down and have a long andvery detailed talk. And you will try to explain to me how the last scene in themovie, the one that is supposed to provide the key, fits in with what has gonebefore.

Hereis the story as we have reason to believe it. A blustering, hard-drinkingbusiness executive named Tony (Christopher McDonald) is married to anattractive younger wife named Josie (Halle Berry). Worried about him, shepersuades him to take a vacation in the woods, but when he's called back totown she goes to a local bar to console herself, and soon her path crosses thatof a man named Cole (Peter Greene).

Hefollows her home into the deep, dark woods. Her Jeep breaks down. He is thereto help. He is threatening but ingratiating. He gathers that she is unhappywith her husband. Well, tonight, she is. But when he says he'll fix things bykilling Tony, she's horrified. Tony met her, Josie explains, when she was aconfused 17-year-old runaway. He asked her to marry him on their first date.Yes, he drinks too much, and there are other problems, but she is stillgrateful to him and has hopes for their future.

Coledoesn't seem to hear her, and eventually the situation grows into a nightmare.Tony is killed. Josie is a suspect. There is more: Josie has been conducting anaffair with Jake (Clive Owen), Tony's partner in a failing restaurant. Josiestands to inherit a lot of money--or does she? If she does, she'll bail outJake--or will she? How much does Jake's wife, Nora (Clea Lewis), know? Whatabout those compromising Polaroids of Josie and Jake that she delivers to thepolice? Can the police really believe Josie's story that Cole acted on his own?And so on. This plot is not blindingly original; its elements are familiar frommany other crime stories. But it does become intriguing because the writing isgood and the characters are original--especially two cops in key supportingroles, who argue over whether Josie is a suspect only because she's a blackwoman married to a white man. There are also amusing scenes involving Nora, whois played by Lewis as a ditzy goofball with a mind of her own.

HalleBerry is convincing, too, and I cared about her, especially as the plot beganto turn against her. Was she innocent or guilty? Innocent, I thought, althoughmaybe guilty if the evidence is looked at in a certain way. What I was notprepared for was the twist at the end, which doesn't seem to follow fromanything that went before, and makes all of my speculation irrelevant.

Just then, her husband dies (plot twist!) and, the wife decides to honor his legacy rather than coming forward with an expose, by burying the secret. The movie ends with a heavy handed metaphor of literally over a blanking page while flying into the sunset.

When Hollywood recently released The Other Woman, starring Cameron Diaz, audiences flocked to theaters in droves for the adultery-themed comedy. I know what the film critics have to say about it (think: unimpressed), but I was more interested to hear the opinions of two women who know a thing or two about adultery.

SH: Some of the themes I noticed were: Revenge gives you your power back. Lasting love is a myth. No one gets to have a Happy Ending. But the overall tone itself was that a woman needs to take control of her love life, by not giving herself fully to any one man for too long; to make the best of the present, without expecting it to last for a lifetime; and to be okay with that.

To learn more about Team Redeemed, co-led by Shelley and Rebecca, and to read other testimonies of discovering life after our worst days, visit www.teamredeemed.org, Twitter, or Facebook. You can also personally connect with Shelley and Rebecca on Twitter and Facebook.

Jocelyn Green is an award-winning author and freelance writer. A former military wife, she authored, along with contributing writers, Faith Deployed: Daily Encouragement for Military Wives and Faith Deployed . . . Again: More Daily Encouragement for Military Wives. Jocelyn also co-authored of Stories of Faith and Courage from the War in Iraq & Afghanistan, and Stories of Faith and Courage from the Home Front, which inspired her first novel, a Civil War historical called Wedded to War. She loves Mexican food, Broadway musicals, Toblerone chocolate bars, the color red, and reading on her patio. Jocelyn lives with her husband Rob and two small children in Cedar Falls, Iowa. Visit her at www.heroinesbehindthelines.com and www.jocelyngreen.com.

One of those people who fell head over heels for Robin is my wife, Jayne, who still considers Robin Hood to be one of her favorite movies ever. As a result, our home is adorned with not just my Star Wars paraphernalia, but lots of Robin Hood collectibles as well. I can be obsessive about things, and she can be too, which is one of the many, many reasons we work so well.

And so, as the credits rolled on Robin Hood, I was happy that Jayne was happy, but I was more sleepy than anything. Still, watching the film for its milestone anniversary, she did have some thoughts on why, specifically, she loved Robin Hood so much, and I fell in love with her, and the movie, all over again.

Becoming a fan of Robin Hood also helped her expand her cinematic tastes beyond Disney. She fully admits loving films like The Adventures of Robin Hood, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, and Robin Hood: Men in Tights just a tiny bit more because the story was part of her for such a long time, and it made her think of her favorite fox.

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