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television film by Nichols [2001]
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  • EGOT winner
    Mike Nichols
    / Later projects: Wit, Angels in America, Spamalot, and Death of a Salesman

    Wit (2001), made for HBO, was a likelier project for Nichols. An adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Margaret Edson, it starred Thompson (who coscripted with Nichols) as a cancer-stricken English professor who reflects on key moments of her life as she undergoes chemotherapy…

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    Wit (2001), made for HBO, was a likelier project for Nichols. An adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Margaret Edson, it starred Thompson (who coscripted with Nichols) as a cancer-stricken English professor who reflects on key moments of her life as she undergoes chemotherapy…

    Read More