Independent Cinema for Everyone

In 1981, decades after she rose to fame in Hollywood, the Academy Award®-winning star of In a Lonely Place and many other iconic films, Gloria Grahame is treading the boards in a modest theatre production when she collapses. Her health failing, she reaches out to former lover, Liverpudlian actor Peter Turner. When Peter takes her back to his family home, to the care of his sympathetic mother, memories of their grand affair soon come flooding back. Adapted from Turner’s own memoir of a truly extraordinary relationship, Bening eloquently portrays a woman who will not compromise her professional ambitions or her desire for personal happiness.

Dir. Paul McGuigan, UK, 2017, 105 mins. Cast. Annette Bening, Jamie Bell, Julie Walters, Kenneth Cranham.