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Having recently turned 50, Marion feels that so far she has led a blessed life. The well-respected Dean of Philosophy at a womens college, she is currently on sabbatical to write her latest book. Although her first husband Sam died tragically 14 years ago from a mixture of alcohol and pills, she has recently married Ken, who had pursued her while he was still married to someone else and his writer friend Larry also professed his love for her. She has a good relationship with her stepdaughter Laura, seemingly better than Lauras relationships with either Ken or Kathy, her volatile mother. Between her and her brother Paul, Marion always had the attention of their academic father, and she and Ken have a wide circle of friends with whom they regularly, willingly socialize. But a series of incidents with these people in her life makes Marion wonder about the decisions that shes made, most specifically whether her cerebral and judgmental nature has been alienating to those around her. One of these incidents is her surprise reunion with her best childhood friend, actress Claire. But arguably the most illuminating incidents involve encounters with Hope, a despondent patient of her workspace neighbor, a psychiatrist whose therapy sessions Marion can hear through the buildings ventilation system. Will Marion be fully able to comprehend the extent to which these decisions have negatively affected her life and relationships? If so, can she make the necessary changes at this stage in her life path to be more fulfilled?
Marion is a woman who has learned to shield herself from her emotions. She rents an apartment to work undisturbed on her new book, but by some acoustic anomaly she can hear all that is said in the next apartment, in which a psychiatrist holds his office. When she hears a young woman tell that she finds it harder and harder to bear her life, Marion starts to reflect on her own life. After a series of events she comes to understand how her unemotional attitude towards the people around her affected them and herself.
Gena Rowlands
Marion
Mia Farrow
Hope
Ian Holm
Ken
Blythe Danner
Lydia
Gene Hackman
Larry
Betty Buckley
Kathy
Martha Plimpton
Laura
John Houseman
Marion's Father
Sandy Dennis
Claire
David Ogden Stiers
Young Marion's Father
Philip Bosco
Sam
Harris Yulin
Paul
Frances Conroy
Lynn
Fred Melamed
Patient's Voice
Kenneth Welsh
Donald
Bruce Jay Friedman
Mark
Bernie Leighton
Piano Player
Jack Gelber
Birthday Party Guest
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