It's a Brain Thing: Alzheimer's and other dementias: part 1
(Duration: 10 minutes)
(Dated: 01 August, 2006)
Learn about dementias, including Alzheimer's disease. The first of a series of 7 lectures on the topic...
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Away from Her (2007)
"Away from Her, chronicles a love story between Fiona and her longtime husband, Grant, played with bearlike stolidity by Gordon Pinsett, as the couple struggle with the onset and acceleration of Fiona's Alzheimer's disease. Moments of lucidity and wry observation pepper Fiona's decline, and Christie gives an unforgettable performance as a woman who is both ordinary and singular to those whom she's touched..."
Pictures of Hollis Woods (2007)
"A movie based on the book written by Patricia Reilly Giff, the storyline is about a troubled young girl with a love of art, Hollis, who is placed by a social worker with an elderly woman, a retired art teacher who is in the early stages of dementia. They develop a relationship but when Hollis realises that social worker is about to take her away from her new best friend she plans an escape, taking her new friend with her..."
Savages (2007)
"It's almost impossible to describe The Savages in a way that makes it sound as richly engaging and enjoyable as it is. The story sounds bleak: Two unhappy siblings, Wendy and Jon Savage, are forced to grapple with their dying father as he slips into dementia. But this spare outline doesn't capture the wealth of human detail that the script and performances contain. Linney and Hoffman vividly portray the sort of cluttered, precarious relationship that brothers and sisters can have, thick with past grievances but also unspoken affections and connections that can't even be articulated. As Wendy and Jon struggle to make some kind of peace with their difficult father, watching these wonderfully understated yet compelling actors is a pleasure unto itself..."
Aurora Borealis (2006)
"In the sweet family drama Aurora Borealis, Jackson portrays Duncan, a twentysomething former hockey player who deals with the death of his father--10 years prior--by bonding with his grandfather Ronald (Donald Sutherland), whose own health is deteriorating due to the onset of dementia. Though others dismiss his rambling as the babbles of an old man, Duncan sees that however his grandfather may seem, he has moments of lucidity. His grandfather claims he can see the Aurora Borealis from his balcony, and who is Duncan to contradict him? Both share a sardonic and sarcastic sense of humor, as well as a feeling of guilt about their respective losses..."
The Notebook (2004)
"He was poor, she was rich, and you can guess the rest; decades later, he's unabashedly devoted, and she's drifting into the memory-loss of senile dementia. How their love endured is the story preserved in the titular notebook that he reads to her in their twilight years. .."
Firefly Dreams (2001)
"Naomi, a seventeen year-old city brat from Nagoya, finds her world turned upside down after the breakup of her parents' marriage. Packed off to the country, she reluctantly works at her aunt's inn until being asked to care for Mrs. Koide, an aging relative with Alzheimer's disease. At first, Naomi dislikes looking after the old woman, but over the course of the summer, the two develop an extraordinary friendship that transcends age and experience..."
Iris (2001)
"Iris teems with fussy charm and the intimate joy found only in a lover's foibles. Adapted from the memoirs of literary critic John Bayley, the film recounts his courtship of and long marriage to British novelist Iris Murdoch. The scenario tacks back and forth from the young Iris (Kate Winslet)--ready to seduce one and all with her coy command of words and sex appeal--to the elder Iris (Judi Dench)--slowly giving way to the cruel erasure of Alzheimer's--and it is impossible not to be moved by the film's denouement of loss..."
Age Old Friends (1989)
"Should an aging father move in with his daughter or stay loyal to his retirement home friend?.. '"
'Devilishly Funny'. - The L.A. Times.
'Something for the entire family to enjoy.'
'Something for the entire family to enjoy.'
- New York Newsday
Genre: COMEDY
Genre: COMEDY
I Never Sang For My Father (1970)
Listed as a movie that features Alzheimer's and starring Gene Hackman. Storyline is about a young man trying to decide whether to follow his dreams or look after his father who has developed dementia...
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