Twelve kinds of taste
Which one are you?
Rate five things you know, from any shelf. Your archetype shows up in about a minute, and gets sharper with every log.
Rate five things you know, from any shelf. Your archetype shows up in about a minute, and gets sharper with every log.
Drama, TV Movie 99 min PG-13
Rotten Tomatoes83%IMDb
It appears to be a matter of life and death.
A renowned professor is forced to reassess her life when she is diagnosed with terminal ovarian cancer.
Sign in to log this.
Contemplative, intimate, overwhelming and spare.
No profiled raters yet.
No reviews yet. Yours would be the first word on it.
Written by TMDB members; each links to the original. Not part of Taste Buds's numbers.
If you recall the "Paper Chase" (1973) you'll be familiar with the concept of a hard-nosed academic who teaches students with a barely veiled sense of contempt and ruthlessness. Well skip on almost three decades and it's Emma Thompson's "Vivian" who rules her class of English literature students with a similarly unforgiving rod of iron. Then she starts to feel a bit ropey and after a visit to her doctor (Christopher Lloyd) is told she has a metastatic ovarian cancer that is going to need one hell of a brutal chemotherapy treatment if she is to have any chance at all of survival. Attended now by "Jason" (Jonathan M. Woodward) a former pupil who claims to have revelled in her John Donne classes of metaphysical poetry, and nurse "Susie" (Audra McDonald), we follow her increasingly intense and debilitating treatment whilst flash-backing through her own life as a timid academic under the tuition of the equally formidable "E.M." (Eileen Atkins). Aside from those occasional retrospectives, we spend most of the film in her hospital room where she initially delivers something akin to a video diary to the camera - complete with some acerbic observations about her "having a nice day"; but as
Read the whole review on TMDBChecking availability…
Closest on the same fourteen dimensions, from everything scored on Taste Buds. Other media included when they land close.
Recommendations from TMDB. Opening one adds it to Taste Buds
Answer first; then see how everyone, and your circle, split.
“Is Wit emotionally manipulative?”
Sign in to answer.
Be the first to answer.
“Does the smallness hold it back?”
Sign in to answer.
Be the first to answer.
“Would a little humor have helped?”
Sign in to answer.
Be the first to answer.
| Stream |
|---|
US availability, powered by JustWatch via TMDB. Each chip opens that service’s search for the title. Other regions on JustWatch
