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Release Date: Oct 15, 2004
Running Time: 105 mins.
Country Of Origin: United Kingdom
Country Of Origin: Canada
Country Of Origin: Hungary
Country Of Origin: United States
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In London in 1938, actress Julia Lambert is at her peak, physically and profesionally, but her successful theatrical career and her marriage to handsome impressario Michael Gosselyn have become stale and unfulfilling. She longs for novelty, excitement, sparks. Enter Tom Fennell. a younger man who claims to be Julia's greatest fan. Finding his ardor irresistable, she decides that romance is the best antidote to a mid-life crisis and embarks on a passionate affair. Life becomes more daring and exciting, until Julia's young lover callously tries to relegate her to a supporting rle. But on opening night, Julia reveals that she is a more formidbale actress than anyone ever imagined.
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Michael Gosselyn
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Dolly de Vries
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Avice Crichton
Walter Gibbs
Grace Dexter
Jimmie Langton
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PETER TRAVERS -
October 6, 2004
Annette Bening can act -- watch American Beauty or Bugsy or The Grifters -- but she works too hard to prove it in Being Julia. As Julia Lambert, an aging diva of the London stage circa 1938, Bening pulls out all the stops -- Brit accent included -- in a role that damn near screams, "Oscar, look at me!" That's the problem. It's hard to care much for a woman who is cheated on by her husband (Jeremy Irons), her lover (Bruce Greenwood) and a twentysomething American (Shaun Evans), whom she makes the…
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