Behind any great man, there's always a greater woman - and you're about to meet her. Joan Castleman (Glenn Close): a highly intelligent and still-striking beauty - the perfect devoted wife. Forty years spent sacrificing her own talent, dreams and ambitions to fan the flames of her charismatic husband Joe (Jonathan Pryce) and his skyrocketing literary career. Ignoring his infidelities and excuses because of his "art" with grace and humour. Their fateful pact has built a marria... (Full plot summary below)
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Behind any great man, there's always a greater woman - and you're about to meet her. Joan Castleman (Glenn Close): a highly intelligent and still-striking beauty - the perfect devoted wife. Forty years spent sacrificing her own talent, dreams and ambitions to fan the flames of her charismatic husband Joe (Jonathan Pryce) and his skyrocketing literary career. Ignoring his infidelities and excuses because of his "art" with grace and humour. Their fateful pact has built a marriage upon uneven compromises. And Joan's reached her breaking point. On the eve of Joe's Nobel Prize for Literature, the crown jewel in a spectacular body of work, Joan's coup de grace is to confront the biggest sacrifice of her life and secret of his career.
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| Deadline Hollywood DailyPete HammondSix time Oscar nominee Glenn Close delivers the kind of performance than could finally win her one in The Wife, a crackerjack adult drama that keeps you riveted. |
| Screen InternationalWendy IdeDespite high quality performances from Close and Pryce, the film leaves us with question marks over the credibility of the central scenario. |
| The GuardianPeter BradshawIt is a smart, supremely watchable and entertaining film, and Close gives a wonderful star turn. |
| Minneapolis Star TribuneColin CovertThe sort of detailed, A-level film that earns a viewer's respect for its intelligence in a marketplace of mind-numbing hoopla. |
| KXL-FM (Portland, OR)Gary WolcottThe plot isn't the reason for the perfect rating. It is Glenn Close's perfect acting that gets my raves. She owns this movie and has never been better. |
| Daily Express (UK)Gabriella GeisingerResentment and vindication make Close's performance electric, her moments on screen practically vibrating with thinly but imperviously veiled emotion. |
| The SpectatorDeborah RossHer performance is better than the film, but it's such a magnificent performance that it more than carries the day. |
| The Sun (UK)Jamie EastEasily one of my favourite dramas of the year. I was enthralled to the very last second. |
| The NationLeah RosenzweigGlenn Close's masterful performance carries the recent film adaptation of a Meg Wolitzer novel. |
| The NitPicAngela L. HarmonWhy doesn't Joan's movie know that she's more than a victim? Especially when she also says things like "I don't want to be thought of as the long-suffering wife," and is given scant opportunities to prove herself otherwise? |
