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After nearly forty years of marriage, JOAN and JOE CASTLEMAN (Glenn Close and Jonathan Pryce) are complements. Where Joe is casual, Joan is elegant. Where Joe is vain, Joan is self-effacing. And where Joe enjoys his very public role as Great American Novelist, Joan pours her considerable intellect, grace, charm, and diplomacy into the private role of Great Man’s Wife. Joe is about to be awarded the Nobel Prize for his acclaimed and prolific body of work. Joe’s literary star has blazed since he and Joan first met in the late 1950. THE WIFE interweaves the story of the couple’s youthful passion and ambition with a portrait of a marriage, thirty-plus years later–a lifetime’s shared compromises, secrets, betrayals, and mutual love.
“I wish there were more movies like this one.”– James Berardinelli, ReelViews
“The sort of detailed, A-level film that earns a viewer’s respect for its intelligence in a marketplace of mind-numbing hoopla.” -Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune
“What unites the film’s two halves – what makes it worth watching, period – is the road Close’s Joan travels as she decides whether to reclaim authorship of her own life.”-Ty Burr, Boston Globe
