Wit is a 2001 American television drama film directed by Mike Nichols. The teleplay by Nichols and Emma Thompson is based on the 1999 Pulitzer Prize-winning play of the same title by Margaret Edson. The film was shown at the Berlin International Film Festival on February 9, 2001 before being broadcast by HBO on March 24.

Wit: Directed by Mike Nichols. With Emma Thompson, Christopher Lloyd, Eileen Atkins, Audra McDonald. A renowned professor is forced to reassess her life when she is diagnosed with terminal ovarian cancer.

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2015年7月7日 · These are the words that open the 2001 HBO adaptation of Margaret Edson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning stage play, Wit. The adaptation, directed by Mike Nichols and starring Emma Thompson, tells the story of Dr. Vivian Bearing’s final weeks of life as she undergoes eight months of rigorous, and often painful, experimental treatment for Stage IV ...

2015年7月8日 · the playwright whose 1993 stage play, Wit, served as the source material for the 2001 HBO film in her home to discuss her play and the subsequent HBO adaptation. Reflecting on her writing, Edson characterized Wit as a struggle between herself and her creation, Dr. Vivian Bearing. While Edson

HBO Films presents an Avenue Pictures production ; a film by Mike Nichols ; directed by Mike Nichols ; screenplay by Emma Thompson & Mike Nichols ; produced by Simon Bosanquet. Wit. New York, NY :HBO Home Video, 2001.

Emma Thompson and Mike Nichols' adaptation of Margaret Edson's intellectual anti-intellectual play "Wit," which won the 1999 Pulitzer Prize, movingly explores a tough but emotionally homeless scholar's confrontation with a life-threatening illness. At the same time, it ruthlessly deconstructs the modern medical research establishment.

2001年3月18日 · WIT,'' the Pulitzer Prize-winning play about a professor of 17th-century metaphysical poetry who is dying of ovarian cancer, is by no stretch a comedy. But it was the humor in Margaret Edson's...