Stevie

1978
PG
1h 42m

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Glenda Jackson and Mona Washbourne in Stevie (1978)

This biographical film has Glenda Jackson portraying a British poet with emotional problems.This biographical film has Glenda Jackson portraying a British poet with emotional problems.This biographical film has Glenda Jackson portraying a British poet with emotional problems.

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6.9/10

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Nominated for 1 BAFTA Award
- 8 wins & 4 nominations total

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The film was given a very limited release in the USA in late 1978, but only on the West Coast. Over two years later, it was shown theatrically on the East Coast and proved a big hit with critics, going on to win many awards, including 2 acting awards from the New York Film Critics.

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Stevie Smith: Agatha Christie is so deadly serious in English... but in French, she's so delightfully funny! Je m'apelle Hercule Poirot, un detective. Her murders are so polite!

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Featured in Sneak Previews: Stevie, Southern Comfort, Chariots of Fire, All the Marbles (1981)

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Stevie Smith: "discomfiting and even improbable"

For a thoughtful, literate, positive essay on the film, see Ed Hirsch in American Poetry Review (Jul/Aug 2000): 32-37: ""It's deeply fitting that the last words of the film are the words of Stevie's final poem ["Come Death (a)," read by Trevor Howard]. They fill the mind, the theater, with their faithful summons, their fatal timely music.""