The Wife

2017
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1h 39m

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Glenn Close and Jonathan Pryce in The Wife (2017)

Joan Castleman (Glenn Close) is the perfect devoted wife. Forty years spent sacrificing her own talent, dreams and ambitions to fan the flames of her charismatic husband Joe (Jonathan Pryce) and his skyrocketing literary career. Ignoring his infidelities and excuses because of his "art" with grace and humor. Their fateful pact has built a marriage upon uneven compromises and Joan's reached her breaking point. On the eve of Joe's Nobel Prize for Literature, the crown jewel in a spectacular body of work, Joan's coup de grace is to confront the biggest sacrifice of her life and secret of his career.

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A wife questions her life choices as she travels to Stockholm to see her husband receive the Nobel Prize for Literature.A wife questions her life choices as she travels to Stockholm to see her husband receive the Nobel Prize for Literature.A wife questions her life choices as she travels to Stockholm to see her husband receive the Nobel Prize for Literature.

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Nominated for 1 Oscar
- 19 wins & 30 nominations total

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Trivia
Annie Starke, who plays the young Joan, is the daughter of Glenn Close.

Goofs
Linnea is a professional photographer, yet she never adjusts the focus ring when snapping photos. Also, during the rehearsal, she is standing much to close to Joe to get any kind of usable photo.

Quotes
Joan Castleman: I am a kingmaker.

Connections
Featured in The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon: Glenn Close/Finn Wolfhard/Lauv (2018)

Soundtracks
Everything's Just So Fine
Performed by Dominic Halpin
Written by Dominic Halpin
Published by King of Cups Music (BMI)/Dominic Halpin (APRA)
Courtesy of Noma Music & Capp Records Inc.

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7/10

Glenn was robbed of best actress.

Really nice movie with great performances. I don't understand why or how Glenn didn't win this time smh.

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Box office

Gross US & Canada
- $9,601,092
Opening weekend US & Canada
- $108,284
- Aug 19, 2018
Gross worldwide
- $19,978,189

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Tech specs

Runtime
1 hour 39 minutes
Color
- Color
Sound mix
- Dolby Digital
Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1

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