The Wife 2018 Movie

A wife questions her life choices as she travels to Stockholm to see her husband receive the Nobel Prize for Literature. More details

Directors

Björn Runge

Cast

Glenn Close Jonathan Pryce Max Irons Christian Slater

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drama nobel prize for literature writer marriage year 1992 infidelity secret biographer photographer adulterous husband 1950s 1960s 1970s 1990s stockholm sweden revelation lie bitterness f rated author nobel prize ceremony husband wife relationship father son relationship sexism flashback ghostwriter new york city connecticut professor student relationship smith college jumping on a bed younger version of character real life mother and daughter play same character concorde aspiring writer son seeks father's approval walnut banquet reference to bill clinton hotel long suffering wife king of sweden heart attack female protagonist two word title scandinavia sweden scandinavian graduation cap queen king ghost writer adultery extramarital affair unfaithfulness novelist flash forward year 1956 professor women's college female writer authoress cynicism fired from the job secretary publishing house year 1960 literary editor mother son relationship year 1968 mother daughter relationship father daughter relationship pregnancy year 1958 airplane crying man female photographer humiliation wanting a divorce babysitting older man younger woman relationship teacher student relationship kiss book reading flirting womanizer blood pressure medication death of husband apology threat to sue listening to someone's heartbeat reference to bypass surgery heart disease wristwatch reference to flatulence candy laurel head wreath loneliness poverty rejection letter reference to james joyce baby necktie throwing a necktie smelling a woman's undergarment writing on a walnut falling in love singer singing laurel head wreath with candles reference to brooklyn new york city reference to a nightmare breakfast in bed reference to santa lucia story telling reference to the nobel prize for physics reference to alzheimet's disease refrerence to conductive poymers reference to prime factors reference to the string theory brother brother relationship overhead camera shot limousine lecture money promise foot massage narcissism nickname pajamas candle snow snowing dining room james joyce quotation food eating eyeglasses pills hotel lobby reference to august strindberg worrying bar confession distrust reference to the nobel prize for chemistry reference to the nobel prize for medicine reference to the nobel prize for economics rehearsal award presentation reference to rocket science cigarette lighter lighting a cigarette reference to a publisher reference to a college journal shyness reference to a psychiatrist reference to a female dentist fear of inadequacy sense of smell reference to vodka seduction grandfather grandson relationship grandmother grandson relationship cafe restaurant kiss on the top of the head father kisses son on the top of his head reference to yale university reference to the illiad rererence to greek reference to henry miller the writer dancer dancing listening to music husband dances with wife reference to a jewish writer coffee electric fan typewriter reference to harlem manhattan new york city manhattan new york city english teacher reference to an ivy league college tuxedo bow tie pot smoking fraud reference to andy warhol genius crying woman executive suite closed door reference to proofreading crying little boy little boy swedish academy applause jewish kingmaker spotlight muse standing ovation throwing an award out a limousine window editor wife wants to leave husband back rub nanny pain resentment co ed shaming someone jew packing sycophant pride reference to a brokerage firm reference to a lawyer hairy chest electrical cardioversion title written by female trauma betrayal reference to maine reference to god sex penis slur old man old woman telephone call telephone nobel foundation prologue reference to richard avedon man wears eyeglasses touching a pregnant woman's stomach cigar smoking drinking drink brother sister relationship family relationships maduros cigars defecation slur champagne giving a toast mirror reference to cambridge cookie woman wears eyeglasses crossword puzzle reference to pickled herring looking at oneself in a mirror name calling f word reference to a doctor cigarette smoking swedish camera agate handshake christmas tree box of chocolates reference to jesus christ memory book reference to arabic reflection in a mirror bad breath reference to the new york times awaken by phone call talking during sex reference to don quixote reference to the iliad reference to the meditations on quixote the book reference to dementia death of father based on novel

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