Streep plays the mother and housewife that allows her husband Bill Hurt be a selfish academic who is more concerned with his place in the literary world than of his beloved wife's eminent death from cancer. What a shame this one went by my radar because I would have loved to see it on the big screen (and in 1998 it would have been in 35mm). I never heard of it and therefore had no preconcieved ideas about it-how did the critics react, etc.
Streep I recently discovered this on a library DVD.
(Sept.I recently discovered this on a library DVD. These stylistic points aside, Quindlen's story sustains an emotional momentum, and she addresses difficult issues with compassion. Unfortunately, Ellen's digressions are often too broad in scope, incorporating peripheral characters and aiming to discuss several themes (i.e., friendship, sex, the cost of ambition) at once these introspections occasionally slow the narrative, especially in the novel's second half. Quindlen's talent for weaving a believable reality from her characters' complex sentiments shines here, and her portraits are full-bodied and carefully drawn. Now cleared of charges and estranged from her father, Ellen speculates on what really happened during the final hours of Kate's life. Following Kate Gulden's autopsy, circumstantial evidence-as far-reaching as a high-school essay she wrote championing euthanasia-accumulated against Ellen, and she was arrested.
While tending her failing mother, Ellen discovered some harsh truths about herself, her parents and the relationships they had developed over the years. Back then, intelligent, overachieving Ellen was forced by her domineering father to abandon a promising magazine career and assume the role of companion and caretaker at her family's suburban home. Manhattan psychiatrist Ellen Gulden recalls the dark time nearly a decade ago when she was accused of administering a fatal dosage of morphine to her mother, who was suffering with terminal cancer. Quindlen (Object Lessons) again examines delicate family dynamics with this resonating tale of a matriarch's illness and the tempest of emotion that swirls around her deterioration and death.
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