Women’s Love Lives Determined For Life By Newport Wedding

Two women’s lives are defined for almost 50 years by the events following a 1950s society wedding in Newport, Rhode Island, and Evening (2007) shows it’s more complicated than you can probably imagine. In the first place, Claire Danes and Mamie Gummer both wanted to marry the same man, who wasn’t the groom, and their attraction to him resulted in one death and an immense sense of longing for many people. We see this in the dreams and hallucinations of Vanessa Redgrave as the old version of Danes when she lies on her deathbed, with her two daughters (Toni Collette and Natasha Richardson) nearby. They are surprised to hear about this man, and distressed that he and their mother were involved in a death. It comes to a peaceful ending when Meryl Streep (playing the old version of her daughter Gummer) arrives to visit Redgrave. Other stellar actors include Glenn Close, Eileen Atkins, Hugh Dancy, Patrick Wilson and Barry Bostwick.

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