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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>
Inspired by The Farewell director Lulu Wang's call to action at the 2020 Independent Spirit Awards, we celebrate women filmmakers working in their field.
This film was on the end of Eraser that I taped off Sky Premier, it was purely accidental that I watched it. I started to watch it thinking that it might get me to sleep, but then I found it great. Robert De Niro had all the best lines with his pathetic brother, Bob(Dan Hedaya). Meryl Streep also shone in her screen time with her son, Hank(Leonardo Di Caprio in his best role ever).
I loved the whole dramatic sequences, and found the acting touching and Oscar worthy. Diane Keaton provided all the tears in the film, with the others all providing laughs.
This film was a huge surprise. I don't usually like dramas(although I loved Di Caprio's and De Niro's other film together, This Boy's Life), and I recommend this to everyone who loves good dramas. Rating=4/5