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Iris
Directed by
Richard Eyre
R
2001
1h 31m
Drama
,
Romance
,
and more
7.0
79%
73%
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True story of the lifelong romance between novelist Iris Murdoch and her husband John Bayley, from their student days through her battle with Alzheimer's disease.
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Cast of Iris
Kate Winslet
Young Iris Murdoch
Judi Dench
Iris Murdoch
Jim Broadbent
John Bayley
Hugh Bonneville
Young John Bayley
Penelope Wilton
Janet Stone
Samuel West
Young Maurice
Timothy West
Older Maurice
Kris Marshall
Dr. Gudgeon
Juliet Aubrey
Young Janet Stone
Derek Hutchinson
Postman
Juliet Howland
Emma Stone
Saira Todd
Phillida Stone
Stephen Marcus
Taxi Driver
Pauline McLynn
Maureen
Eleanor Bron
Principal
Angela Morant
Hostess
Siobhan Hayes
Check-Out Girl
Joan Bakewell
BBC Presenter
Nancy Carroll
BBC PA
Tom Mannion
Neurologist
Charlotte Arkwright
Young Phillida Stone
Harriet Arkwright
Young Emma Stone
Matilda Allsopp
Little Stone
Steve Edis
Pianist
Emma Handy
Policewoman
Gabrielle Reidy
Tricia
Tony Blair
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
David Blunkett
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Iris Ratings & Reviews
San Francisco Chronicle
Edward Guthmann
The performances are the raison d'etre...
Orlando Sentinel
Jay Boyar
[The] performances, if nothing else, embody a standard of excellence that Iris Murdoch herself would surely have cheered.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Carrie Rickey
Because the performances are so powerful, one nearly forgets that in its vaulting between the '50s and '90s, Iris is a story with a beginning and end but without a middle.
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
There are not two, but four sterling performances here.
Seattle Times
Moira MacDonald
...intrigues and devastates.
Washington Post
Ann Hornaday
Not just a fitting document of a life brilliantly lived but a vibrant, almost palpitating piece of cinema.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
Because the film is well-acted and written with intelligence, it might be worth seeing, despite my objections.
Boston Globe
Jay Carr
Iris glows with rightness and convinces us we're sharing its characters' understanding that when the books and the memory go, love can remain.
Detroit News
Susan Stark
Tune out the hype for countless other movies. This is the one to see.
Detroit Free Press
Terry Lawson
Iris sounds as if it would be painful to watch, and in scenes like the one described above, it can be. Yet watching love realistically depicted onscreen remains the greatest joy of film, and its most important gift to the world.
Houston Chronicle
Bruce Westbrook
As the story of heroic response to tragic illness, Iris is the kind of film often cynically pegged a 'disease of the week' movie. But unlike such formulaic TV productions, Iris' heroine is denied the capacity to be inspiring.
Denver Post
Steven Rosen
The performances in Iris -- by Judi Dench as the older Murdoch and Jim Broadbent as her husband, John Bayley, and by Kate Winslet as the younger Murdoch -- are so good that the film is completely compelling.
Dallas Morning News
Jane Sumner
A must-see canticle to married love.
San Jose Mercury News
Bruce Newman
Demonstrates the catastrophe of disintegration by putting us first in the full thrall of the character's intellect.
CNN.com
Paul Clinton (CNN.com)
...the results are tender, unflinching, raw and wonderful.
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
It's good, but not great -- despite the heights to which Dench and Broadbent drive it. But those heights are lofty, the pain still stings.
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Eleanor Ringel Cater
It's an exemplary lesson in Acting 101, taught by Judi Dench (Iris) and Jim Broadbent (John Bayley, her loyal husband of 40 years).
The New Republic
Stanley Kauffmann
To judge by the result, which is gripping, the film-makers foresaw all the difficulties.
Village Voice
Joy Press
It leaves out huge gaps of Murdoch's life -- the whole center of it really, when she published all of her important books.
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