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Title: Marvin's Room (1996)
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Meryl Streep | ... | Lee | |
| Leonardo DiCaprio | ... | Hank | |
| Diane Keaton | ... | Bessie | |
| Robert De Niro | ... | Dr. Wally | |
| Hume Cronyn | ... | Marvin | |
| Gwen Verdon | ... | Ruth | |
| Hal Scardino | ... | Charlie | |
| Dan Hedaya | ... | Bob | |
| Margo Martindale | ... | Dr. Charlotte | |
| Cynthia Nixon | ... | Retirement Home Director | |
| Kelly Ripa | ... | Coral | |
| John Callahan | ... | Lance | |
| Olga Merediz | ... | Beauty Shop Lady | |
| Joe Lisi | ... | Bruno | |
| Steve DuMouchel | ... | Gas Station Guy (as Steve Dumouchel) | |
Estranged since their father's first stroke some 17 years earlier, Lee and Bessie lead separate lives in separate states. Lee's son, Hank, finds himself committed to a mental institution after setting fire to his mother's house. His younger brother, Charlie, seems unfazed by his brother's eccentricities or his mother's seeming disinterest. When Lee comes to the asylum to spring Hank for a week in Florida so that he can be tested as a possible bone marrow donor for Bessie, Hank is incredulous. "I didn't even know you had a sister," he says. "Remember, every Christmas, when I used to say 'Well, looks like Aunt Bessie didn't send us a card again this year?'" "Oh yeah," Hank says. Meanwhile, Marvin, the two women's bedridden father, has "been dying for the past twenty years." "He's doing it real slow so I don't miss anything," Bessie tells Dr. Wally. In Bessie's regular doctor's absence, it has fallen to Dr. Wally to inform Bessie that she has leukemia and will die without a bone marrow ... Written by Mark Fleetwood <mfleetwo@mail.coin.missouri.edu>
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This movie should be reviewed for its great performances from some of the best actors today. Meryl Streep does not fail to shine out as one of the best actresses of all time as an emotionally distraught mother in this tale of hopes, emotions and intense feelings. Keaton, on the other hand portrays her best performance ever, and Leonardo DiCaprio proves that he has talents besides being a heartthrob. This movie really moved me, not because of the story itself but the acting was very realistic....I believe that they all should have received an Oscar nomination. Well done!