A stroke survivor's mind becomes the most dangerous place on earth.
Acting
Constance Cummings devastates in a career-capping performance.
Direction
Madden makes aphasia viscerally cinematic, not clinical.
Director
John Madden
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Constance Cummings was 73 and hadn't led a film in decades; she won a CableACE Award for this. John Madden later directed Shakespeare in Love.
Based on Arthur Kopit's play, which used aphasic language patterns as dramatic poetry—Cummings learned to 'forget' how to speak for the role.
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