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When a tough New Yorkers mother is stricken with a serious illness, she is forced to quit her job and her relationship with her boyfriend to take care of her, finding out a lot of things she didnt know about her mother and father and her life along the way.
This movie is a family drama revolving around a dying mothers final months in the care of her daughter. Ellen Guldens (Renée Zellwegers) father rebukes her for not caring enough about her mother to quit her job, move back home to upstate New York, and leave her soulmate behind to fend for himself in their tidy New York City apartment. But, when she succumbs under the strain of guilt and does as he asks, it appears that he is too busy to carry his part of the load. In fact, it begins to look like Ellens father is more concerned with who is going to keep his life running smoothly than who will tend to his poor wife as she struggles with cancer. George Gulden (William Hurt) is a gifted professor and English department head, but he is an unrealized novelist. His novel, "Come Back Inn", is still unfinished after many years of torturous self-editing and re-writes long after the advance he received from his publisher is spent. Still, he basks in the reflected glow of more famous and successful writers with whom he maintains tenuous ties. This realization humanizes him for Ellen, who has always revered her father as something of a literary giant in spite of his occassional daliances with graduate students. Kate Gulden (Meryl Streep), dying of cancer at only forty-eight, loves life, and loves her children and her husband. When her suffering finally ends from an overdose of morphine, the District Attorney (James Eckhouse) suspects Ellen of having helped her mother to end her life. In the end, though, it seems to be Kate who still nurtures them, somehow even from the grave.
Meryl Streep
Kate Gulden
Renée Zellweger
Ellen Gulden
William Hurt
George Gulden
Tom Everett Scott
Brian Gulden
Lauren Graham
Jules
Nicky Katt
Jordan Belzer
James Eckhouse
District Attorney
Patrick Breen
G.A. Tweedy
Gerrit Graham
Oliver Most
David Byron
Senator Sullivan
Stephen Peabody
Harold
Lizbeth Mackay
Dr. Cohen
Mary Catherine Wright
Clarice
Sloane Shelton
Evelyn Best
Michele Shay
June
Bobo Lewis
Muriel
Marylouise Burke
Louisa
Marcia Jean Kurtz
Marcia
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