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Right of Way (DVD) (*)

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Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital Stereo )
Spanish ( Dolby Digital Stereo )
Spanish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Spain ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
106 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1983 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
George Schaefer

Written By:
Richard Lees

Actors:
Bette Davis ..... Mini Dwyer
James Stewart ..... Teddy Dwyer
Melinda Dillon ..... Ruda Dwyer
Priscilla Morrill ..... Mrs. Finter
John Harkins ..... G. Clayburn
Jacque Lynn Colton ..... Mrs. Belkin
Louis Schaefer ..... Kahn
Charles Walker ..... Kahn's Assistant
Ismael 'East' Carlo ..... Gardener (as East Carlo)
Edith Fields ..... Saleswoman
Michael Canavan ..... Process Server (as Michael V. Murphy)
Philip Littell ..... Cashier
Robert Jayne ..... Mrs. Belkin's Son (as Bobby Jacoby)
Jodi Hicks ..... Mrs. Belkin's Daughter
Erin Karpf ..... Mrs. Belkin's Daughter

Synopsis:

This story about an elderly couple who start a large controversy when everyone learns they plan on committing suicide stars James Stewart as the retired Teddy Dwyer, and Betty Davis is his wife Mini Dwyer. When Mini learns she is terminally ill with a blood disease, the couple decide to end their lives peacefully, at the same time. Mini's mistake was to finally tell her daughter Ruda (Melinda Dillon), and from there, the news eventually leaks out and gets passed on to the media. Right of Way tries to balance precariously between a serious theme and a light-hearted couple, as Teddy continues engrossed in his books and Mini in her long-practiced art of making specialty dolls, with their housecats all around them.

Miniature Dwyer is named after her mother, who was making miniature doll houses when Minnie was born. Minnie, too, has built doll houses for years, and when she learns that she is terminally ill, she and her husband Teddy begin planning their joint suicide. She makes sure that her dolls are placed with people who will appreciate and cherish them. The couple refuse to allow their grief-stricken daughter or the solicitous social worker or anyone else to forestall the death they are determined is right for them.

A dying woman and her husband agree to a joint-suicide pact, whether others like it or not.

This product was added to our catalog on Thursday 24 September, 2009.

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