![]() Chubbuck was a lonely news reporter in Sarasota, Florida, frustrated at work and in her dating life as she approached 30. The tragic story of Christine Chubbuck was the inspiration for not one but two films released in 2016, the other being a documentary entitled Kate Plays Christine. The amazing thing is the way that these women’s lives are tied together by Woolf’s, a life that was so fraught with unhappiness but still gave strength and beauty to others. It is Richard who ends up taking his own life, and his mother, revealed to be Laura, who chose to instead abandon her family. And in 2001, Clarissa (Meryl Streep) and her AIDS-stricken friend Richard discuss the relevance of Woolf in their lives. In 1951, Laura ( Julianne Moore) is a mother with what looks like a picture-perfect life, but underneath she is dissatisfied and stifled, and is about to attempt suicide when an encounter with Mrs. In 1923, Woolf is struggling through a bout of depression to write the book that many consider being her masterpiece, detailing one day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway. ![]() Dalloway) looms large throughout the whole movie. Virginia Woolf as played by Nicole Kidman is only in one-third of this sectioned film, but her presence (and the influence of her novel Mrs. The girls have made a suicide pact, and the Lisbon parents, finding themselves with the unimaginable tragedy of losing all five of their children, leave the neighborhood, leaving the boys who loved their daughters to grieve alone, never really sure as to how it all happened, or if they could have stopped it. Inroads are made by one local boy, Trip (Josh Hartnett), who begins a relationship with the oldest daughter, Lux (Kirsten Dunst), but a homecoming dance where Trip secures dates for all of the sisters becomes a turning point there’s no coming back from. The baby of the family, Cecelia, makes a suicide attempt that isn’t exactly taken seriously, and her second attempt is successful, devastating the family who proceed to hold themselves even further apart from their community. It’s the 1970s and the five teenage Lisbon sisters are like princesses from a European fairy tale: beautiful, gracious, enigmatic, forever just out of reach to the boys desperate to get to know them better. Sofia Coppola’s dreamy 1999 film adaptation of Jeffrey Eugenides’ much-loved 1993 novel moves along some of the same lines as Love Liza (see above), with more of a focus on those left behind than on the victims of suicide. Related: Every Movie Directed by Robert Redford, Ranked Timothy Hutton won an Academy Award for his performance as the tortured Conrad, and critic Victor Canby summarized the film’s success astutely, calling it, “a moving, intelligent and funny film about disasters that are commonplace to everyone except the people who experience them.” Like many families when confronted with suicide, this one is as ripped apart by Conrad’s attempt as they are by Buck’s death, and they do not survive intact. The surviving son, Conrad, has only recently returned home after hospitalization for a suicide attempt, having been inadvertently a party to Buck’s accident.Ĭalvin is the one trying hardest to hold the family together, while Beth seems to resent her surviving son, making it plain that she preferred Buck. Donald Sutherland, Mary Tyler Moore, and Timothy Hutton are the Jarretts, Calvin, Beth, and Conrad, a family left reeling after their older son, Buck, dies in a sailing accident. Robert Redford made his stunning directorial debut in 1980 with an adaptation of Judith Guest’s 1978 novel. Related: Best Philip Seymour Hoffman Movies, Ranked ![]() Although he finally brings himself to read the letter, it doesn’t really contain an explanation, which is something that can make those left behind by suicide feel such a specific, incomparable type of grief. Hoffman turns in a beautiful performance of a man plunged into depression, having been incapable of understanding what his wife was going through that led her to her final choice. To fill the hole that Liza left in his life, Wilson, at the suggestion of a co-worker, becomes involved in building and flying remote-controlled planes, which he had hoped would cover up his growing addiction to gasoline huffing, although it doesn’t do the trick. Wilson is a man who has been left destroyed by the unexpected suicide of his wife Liza, and although he has what he believes is her suicide note in a sealed letter to him, he’s too distraught to open it, despite the urgings of his mother-in-law, an excellent Kathy Bates. Although the role of Wilson wasn’t written specifically for Hoffman, the screenplay was written by his older brother Gordy. There’s now an extra layer of poignancy to this 2002 tragicomedy, in that we have now also tragically lost its star, Philip Seymour Hoffman.
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