Directed by:
Mike NicholsCinematography:
Seamus McGarveyCast:
Emma Thompson, Christopher Lloyd, Eileen Atkins, Audra McDonald, Harold Pinter, Raffaello Degruttola, Benedict Wong, David Zayas, Lachele Carl, Gary Beadle (more)Plots(1)
English literary scholar Vivian Bearing is a disciplined academian, an expert in the intricate metaphysical poetry of John Donne. She is prickly, precise and intensenly rational in her teaching and her life. Her academic cocoon protects her, cushions her, makes it possible to exist without the need of anyone. When she is suddenly faced with the most daunting of personal crises, a diagnosis of ovarian cancer, her 17th-century poetic world collides with the 21st-century experimental medicine, and a personal awakening is the in motion. (Cinemax)
(more)Cast
![Emma Thompson](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/163/679/163679060_587380.jpg)
Emma Thompson
UK
Best movies:
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)
Love Actually (2003)
In the Name of the Father (1993)
![Christopher Lloyd](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/165/127/165127717_176be2.jpg)
Christopher Lloyd
USA
Best movies:
One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
Stranger Things (2016) (series)
Back to the Future (1985)
![Eileen Atkins](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/163/205/163205153_f4d0a3.jpg)
Eileen Atkins
UK
Best movies:
Cold Mountain (2003)
Wit (2001) (TV movie)
The Hours (2002)
![Audra McDonald](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/162/291/162291792_609294.jpg)
Audra McDonald
Best movies:
Wit (2001) (TV movie)
Beauty and the Beast (2017)
Annie (1999) (TV movie)
Harold Pinter
UK
Best movies:
Wit (2001) (TV movie)
The Servant (1963)
Rogue Male (1976) (TV movie)
![Raffaello Degruttola](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/168/728/168728694_ogvtj6.jpg)
Raffaello Degruttola
UK
Best movies:
Rush (2013)
Saving Private Ryan (1998)
Wit (2001) (TV movie)
![Benedict Wong](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/166/315/166315971_b83aa5.jpg)
Benedict Wong
UK
Best movies:
Avengers: Infinity War (2018)
Avengers: Endgame (2019)
The Martian (2015)
![David Zayas](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/276/276079_bda653.jpg)
David Zayas
Puerto Rico
Best movies:
Wit (2001) (TV movie)
Rounders (1998)
Return to Paradise (1998)
![Lachele Carl](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/162/611/162611891_2aa2da.jpg)
Lachele Carl
USA
Best movies:
Wit (2001) (TV movie)
A Streetcar Named Desire (2014) (theatrical recording)
Batman (1989)
Gary Beadle
UK
Best movies:
Wit (2001) (TV movie)
Small Axe (2020) (series)
In the Heart of the Sea (2015)
![Miquel Brown](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/161/456/161456036_fc5aff.jpg)
Miquel Brown
Canada
Best movies:
Wit (2001) (TV movie)
Superman (1978)
French Kiss (1995)
Shauna Shim
USA
Best movies:
Wit (2001) (TV movie)
Dogville (2003)
Big Nothing (2006)
Jenny Jules
UK
Best movies:
Wit (2001) (TV movie)
Prime Suspect 2 (1992) (TV movie)
Go Now! (1995)
![Hari Dhillon](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/162/716/162716536_2dc298.jpg)
Hari Dhillon
USA
Best movies:
Wit (2001) (TV movie)
Entrapment (1999)
Midsomer Murders (1997) (series)
David Menkin
Norway
Best movies:
Wit (2001) (TV movie)
The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (2015)
Zero Dark Thirty (2012)