Golden Globe Winner — Best Actress in a Motion Picture–Drama: Glenn Close
Critics' Choice Winner — Best Actress: Glenn Close
Academy Award Nomination — Best Actress: Glenn Close
Film Independent Spirit Award Nomination — Best Female Lead: Glenn Close
After nearly forty years of marriage, Joan and Joe Castleman (Glenn Close and Jonathan Pryce) are complements: Where Joe is brash, Joan is shy. Where Joe is casual, Joan is elegant. Where Joe is vain, Joan is self-effacing. And where Joe enjoys his very public role as The Great American Novelist, Joan usually pours her considerable intellect, grace, charm, and diplomacy into the private role of Great Man’s Wife, keeping the household running smoothly, the adult children in close contact, and Joe’s pills dispensed on schedule. But this time, as Joe is about to receive the Nobel Prize, Joan’s had enough. Serving Joe notice that she wants no place on a pedestal as his passive muse. Instead of smoothing over everyone else’s problems, Joan finally reaches for self-determination. The Castleman marriage and literary legend will never be the same.
Directed by Berlin Silver Bear-winner Björn Runge, The Wife is adapted by Jane Anderson from the Meg Wolitzer novel of the same name. (c) Sony Pictures Classics
[Close] should win [an Oscar] because her performance was riveting, subtle and painfully naked in a film that explores the difficulties women face when pursuing a creative career, and not just the obvious ones....Glenn Close doesn’t need an Oscar to prove anything; she’s already proved it. But an institution that purports to reward excellence most certainly needs to give her one. For The Wife. — Los Angeles Times
Rated R | Running time 1hr 40min | Drama
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