Away from Her (2007)

This hauntingly beautiful and heartbreakingly real story of Alzheimers and its impact on both patients and caregivers is based on a story by Alice Munro, The Bear Came over the Mountain. Fiona (hristie)develops the dread disease and her husband, Grant (Pinsent), agrees that she should go to Meadowlake, where she develops an infatuation with another patient, Aubrey, (apparently a not uncommon occurrence). Grant is then “away from her,” as much as she is away from him  How he and Marian (Dukakis), Aubrey’s wife, respond to this is complex, human, and quite profound, a kind of allegory of what it means to discover that things never work out as one expects. Brilliant performances by all four principals including Murphy as the much diminished and weepy Aubrey. ...Read the full review