Evening is a 2007 American drama film directed by Lajos Koltai. The screenplay by Susan Minot and Michael Cunningham is based on the 1998 novel of the same name by Minot.
The film alternates between two time periods, the 1950s and the present, in which a dying Ann Grant Lord reflects on her past. Her confusing comments about people she never mentioned before leave her daughters, reserved Constance and restless Nina, wondering if their mother is d...
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Evening is a 2007 American drama film directed by Lajos Koltai. The screenplay by Susan Minot and Michael Cunningham is based on the 1998 novel of the same name by Minot.
The film alternates between two time periods, the 1950s and the present, in which a dying Ann Grant Lord reflects on her past. Her confusing comments about people she never mentioned before leave her daughters, reserved Constance and restless Nina, wondering if their mother is delusional.
As a young woman in her early twenties, cabaret singer Ann arrives at the spacious Newport, Rhode Island home of her best friend Lila Wittenborn, who is on the verge of getting married. Lila's brother (and Ann's college friend) Buddy introduces her to Harris Arden, the son of a former family servant. Buddy tells Ann his sister always has adored Harris, and expresses his concern that she's marrying another man out of a sense of duty rather than love. Inebriated, Buddy passes out, and as Ann and Harris chat they find themselves...
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