Iris

Name: Iris
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Released: December 14, 2001
Duration: 91 min
Rating: 76
Cast: Jim Broadbent, Judi Dench

2001

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Miramax Films | Release Date: December 14, 2001 | R

Starring: Jim Broadbent, Judi Dench

Summary: The true story of the romance between novelist and philosopher Iris Murdoch (Dench, Winslet) and John Bayley (Broadbent), from their meeting at Oxford, through over 40 years, including Murdoch's fight with Alzheimer's Disease.

Director: Richard Eyre

Genre(s): Biography, Drama, Romance

Rating: R

Runtime: 91 min

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Connie Ogle

First and foremost, Iris is a magnificent story about the enduring bond between two eccentric, astounding souls who somehow managed to find each other and hold on for dear life. Read full review

Kenneth Turan

Intelligent, poignant film. Read full review

Michael Sragow

The union of thought and feeling becomes flesh and blood thanks to four brilliant performers in Iris. Read full review

Michael Wilmington

It's good, but not great -- despite the heights to which Dench and Broadbent drive it. But those heights are lofty, the pain still stings. Read full review

Lisa Schwarzbaum

The movie's most artful feature is the fluidity with which the past slides into the present, echoing Murdoch's own unmoored sentience, so that the younger self, played with dash and vigor by Kate Winslet, turns into the old woman lost in her own home. Read full review

Peter Rainer

By continually interrupting the sequences of the adult couple with scenes of the young pair, Eyre shatters the emotional power of Dench and Broadbent. Read full review

Roger Ebert

Because the film is well-acted and written with intelligence, it might be worth seeing, despite my objections. I suspect my own feelings. Read full review

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BrandonS.

Mar 20, 2008

This is a beautiful, heartbreaking movie.

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jhep

Dec 5, 2015

What a strangely pointless film !……so shallow….so bored with its material and so boring to watch - a kind of Dutiful Exercise for everyone involved....Tiresome one-note performances wedded to tedious one-note direction. Rarely have I watched a film script and a ham-fisted directorial touchWhat a strangely pointless film !……so shallow….so bored with its material and so boring to watch - a kind of Dutiful Exercise for everyone involved....Tiresome one-note performances wedded to tedious one-note direction. Rarely have I watched a film script and a ham-fisted directorial touch produce a work that so totally abandoned the characters ! They are depicted here with something like complete indifference. They bore us and ultimately seem almost ridiculous and pathetic..... The only thing this movie has going for it is snob appeal....but that - sad to say- is almost always enough to "wow" the critics.… Expand

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