Evening Summary
The love which binds mother and daughter - seen through the prism of one mother's life as it crests with optimism, navigates a turning point, and ebbs to its close. Overcome by the power of memory, Ann Lord (Vanessa Redgrave) reveals a long-held secret to her concerned daughters; Constance Haverford (Natasha Richardson), a content wife and mother, and Nina Mars (Toni Collette), a restless single woman. Both are bedside when Ann calls out for the man she loved more than any other. But who is this "Harris", wonder her daughters, and what is he to our mother? While Constance and Nina try to take stock of Ann's life and their own lives, their mother is tended to by a night nurse (Dame Eileen Atkins) as she journeys in her mind back to a summer weekend around fifty years before, when she was Ann Grant (Claire Danes), a young woman who has come from New York City to be maid of honor at the high-society Newport wedding of her dearest friend from college, Lila Wittenborn (Mamie Gummer). The ...
Written by
Focus Features
Evening Cast
- Claire Danes
- Toni Collette
- Vanessa Redgrave
- Patrick Wilson
- Hugh Dancy
- Natasha Richardson
- Mamie Gummer
- Eileen Atkins
- Meryl Streep
- Glenn Close
- Ebon Moss-Bachrach
- Barry Bostwick
- David Furr
- Sarah Clements
- Cheryl Lynn Bowers