Duet for One

I saw this movie after reading about it in Rupert Everett's "Red Carpets and Other Banana Skins." I was very curious about it and I am glad I did. It is a very good story. Acting is well done. Rupert is... Full review

I saw this movie after reading about it in Rupert Everett's "Red Carpets and Other Banana Skins." I was very curious about it and I am glad I did. It is a very good story. Acting is well done. Rupert is... Full review

"I'm in this chair because I've got multiple sclerosis," thunders Julie Andrews (as Stephanie) to her shrink - rather a caricature - Max von Sydow. There is anger, there is bitterness, there is a resignation, there is a sense of... Full review

...and also make a nonsense of your title. The film is based on a stage play, which is so called because, although a two-hander, it is much closer to being a one-woman show. The stage version was produced for BBC... Full review

Julie Andrews did a remarkable job playing the character of Stephanie Anderson in this movie. She did a great job of expressing the trial and tribulations that stephanie anderson goes through as she copes with MS. Great Job Julie! You... Full review

Julie Andrews is positively moving in this story abotu a world-famous violinist who has been diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis (true story).Miss Andrews acts this part wonderfully. She is deep and well, exactly right for the part of Stephanie Anderson. Liam... Full review

I was surprised this disappeared the way it did and that Julie Andrews did not receive an Academy Award nomination. It's a tough uncompromising depiction of what it's like for someone who is losing control physically and starts to lose... Full review

If "Duet for One" were wholly true to the spirit of the scenes with Neeson, it would be a great movie, touching the anger with which we all cry out against the fate of death. The most crucial weakness is in the character of the husband (Bates), a composer who feels insecure in his wife's shadow and finally incapable of coping with her illness. ... Full Review

Juliet Stevenson has few equals when it comes to depicting women on the verge of mental collapse. You want sniffles one moment, head thrown back in despairing laughter the next? ... Full Article

The "duet for one" of the title is Stephanie's journey of reluctant self-acknowledgement. She comes to terms with the implications of her condition not by slow degrees but in wild fits and starts, graduating from the elegant pleasantries of her... ... Full Article