Margaret Edson's Pulitzer-winning script is faithfully adapted to the small screen by director Mike Nichols and star Emma Thompson in this HBO special. Thompson plays Vivian Bearing, a professor of 17th Century poetry specializing in "the Holy Sonnets of John Donne." The intellect is everything to Vivian, which is why, when she is diagnosed with stage four ovarian cancer, she agrees to undergo aggressive chemotherapy in the name of cancer research. Yet as her treatment, and her cancer, progresses, Vivian finds that what she needs most isn't the cold rationality with which she's lived her whole life but the simple human kindness shown by her primary nurse and her former mentor. This beautiful meditation on death and humanity is shot in close-ups that linger on Emma Thompson's spare, emotionally naked performance.

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