Away from Her

She then wrote and directed Away from Her (2006), her adaptation of Alice Munro’s short story “The Bear Went over the Mountain,” for which she earned an Academy Award nomination for best adapted screenplay. Starring Gordon Pinsent and Julie Christie as a married couple coping with Alzheimer disease and a…

…love with another man in Away from Her (2006), based on a short story by Alice Munro. She later portrayed the grandmother in Red Riding Hood (2011), an adaptation of the well-known folktale, and an erstwhile radical political activist in Robert Redford’s thriller The Company You Keep (2012). In 2017…

…into the critically acclaimed film Away from Her (2006), directed by Sarah Polley and starring Julie Christie and Gordon Pinsent with Michael Murphy and Olympia Dukakis. Other film adaptations of Munro’s work include Hateship Loveship (2013), which was based on the title story of her 2001 collection, and Pedro Almodóvar’s…