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Alberta Watson as
Dr. Fischer - Gordon Pinsent as
Grant Anderson - Stacey LaBerge as
Young Fiona - Julie Christie as
Fiona Anderson - Olympia Dukakis as
Marian - Deanna Dezmari as
Veronica - Clare Coulter as
Phoebe Hart - Thomas Hauff as
William Hart - Grace Lynn Kung as
Nurse Betty - Lili Francks as
Theresa - Andrew Moodie as
Liam - Wendy Crewson as
Madeleine Montpellier - Judy Sinclair as
Mrs. Albright - Tom Harvey as
Michael - Carolyn Heatherington as
Eliza
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Type: Movie
Genres/Tags: Movie-Drama, Romance, Movie-New-Online
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Fiona and Grant are an Ontario couple who have been married for over 40 years. Now, in the oncoming twilight of their years, they are forced to face the fact that Fiona's "forgetfulness" actually is Alzheimer's Disease. After Fiona wanders away and is found after being lost, they agree she must go into a nursing home. For the first time in the five decades their relationship has spanned, they are forced to undergo a long-time separation since the nursing home has a "no-visitors" policy for the first 30 days of a patient's stay, so they can adjust to their new surroundings. When Grant visits Fiona after the orientation period, he is devastated to find out that not only has she seemingly forgotten him, Fiona has transferred her affections to another man. The other man is Aubrey, a wheelchair bound mute patient at the nursing home. As the distance between husband and wife grows, Grant must draw upon his love for Fiona to perform an act of self-sacrifice in order to ensure her happiness.
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Away from Her is a Golden Globe-winning and Academy Award nominated English-Canadian film directed by Sarah Polley which debuted at the 2006 Toronto International Film Festival and also played in the Premier category at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival. The feature-length directorial debut of Canadian actress Sarah Polley, the film is based on Alice Munro's short story "The Bear Came over the Mountain", from the 2001 collection Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage. It was executive produced by Atom Egoyan (Polley's director in both Exotica and The Sweet Hereafter) and distributed by Lionsgate Films. The film stars Gordon Pinsent and Julie Christie as a couple whose marriage is tested when Christie's character begins to suffer from Alzheimer's and moves into a nursing home, where she loses virtually all memory of her husband and begins to develop a romance with another nursing home resident. The cast also includes Olympia Dukakis, Michael Murphy, Wendy Crewson, Alberta Watson, and Kristen Thomson. The film was shot in Hamilton, Ontario.
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