Top billed cast

1. 

   Emma Thompson

   Vivian Bearing

2. 

   Audra McDonald

   Susie Monahan

3. 

   Jonathan M. Woodward

   Dr Jason Posner

4. 

   Christopher Lloyd

   Dr. Harvey Kelekian

5. 

   Eileen Atkins

   Evelyn 'E.M' Ashford

6. 

   Benedict Wong

   Fellow 2

7. 

   Harold Pinter

   Mr. Bearing

8. 

   Raffaello Degruttola

   Technician 1

9. 

   Miquel Brown

   Technician 2

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf

Written by CinemaSerf on 2026-07-12

If you recall the "Paper Chase" (1973) you'll be familiar with the concept of a hard-nosed academic who teaches students with a barely veiled sense of contempt and ruthlessness. Well skip on almost three decades and it's Emma Thompson's "Vivian" who rules her class of English literature students with a similarly unforgiving rod of iron. Then she starts to feel a bit ropey and after a visit to her doctor (Christopher Lloyd) is told she has a metastatic ovarian cancer that is going to need one hell of a brutal chemotherapy treatment if she is to have any chance at all of survival. Attended now b...read the rest

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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$0.00

Keywords

• nurse
• poetry
• professor
• cancer
• hospital
• doctor
• hospital room
• ovarian cancer
• english professor
• chemotherapy