Drama, Romance & Adaptation
Starring: Vanessa Redgrave, Meryl Streep, Toni Collette, Claire Danes
117 min.
Rated: PG-13 for some thematic elements, sexual material, a brief
accident scene & language
Her greatest secret was her greatest gift...
Overcome by the power of memory, Ann Lord reveals a long-held secret
to her concerned daughters; Constance, a content wife and mother, and
Nina, a restless single woman. Both are bedside when Ann calls out for
the man she loved more than any other. But who is this Harris, wonder
her daughters, and what is he to our mother? While Constance and Nina
try to take stock of Ann's life and their own lives, their mother is
tended to by a night nurse as she journeys in her mind back to a
summer weekend some fifty years ago, when she was Ann Grant, a young
woman who has come from New York City to be maid of honor at the high-
society Newport wedding of her dearest friend from college, Lila
Wittenborn. The bride-to-be is jittery, and turns to her maid-of-
honor, rather than her own mother, for support. Ann stays close to her
friend, yet is even closer to Lila's irrepressible brother Buddy.
Unexpected feelings surge forth once Ann meets wedding guest Harris
Arden, a lifelong friend and intimate of the Wittenborn family. Ann's
love for Harris will change her life, and those of her daughters,
forever.
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