Six-time Academy Award-nominee Glenn Close has had a legendary acting career, to say the least. The “Fatal Attraction” star has 84 film and television credits spanning over a four-decade career. And even after all those years, she keeps getting better and better. Now, Close’s latest film, “The Wife,” is already earning her awards buzz.
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In the new trailer for the film “The Wife,” we are introduced to Close, who plays the wife of a Nobel Prize-winning author. As she and her husband prepare for his Nobel Prize acceptance, she is confronted by the truth that her husband isn’t the amazing person everyone thinks he might be. And in the process of being a wife, she has sacrificed her own career and creativity. After watching the trailer, you immediately are reminded of Robin Wright’s character in “House of Cards.”
“The Wife” is written by Jane Anderson, who won an Emmy for her work on “Olive Kitteridge,” adapted from the bestselling novel by Meg Wolitzer, and directed by Swedish filmmaker Björn Runge. Close stars in the film alongside Jonathan Pryce, Max Irons, and Christian Slater.
Distributed by Sony Pictures Classics, “The Wife” will hit theaters on August 3, 2018.
Read official synopsis below:
Joan Castleman (Glenn Close): a still-striking beauty with impeccable credentials, the perfect alpha wife. Forty years spent sacrificing her own talent, dreams and ambitions to fan the flames of her charismatic husband Joe (Jonathan Pryce) and his skyrocketing literary career. Ignoring his infidelities and excuses because of his “art” with grace and humour.
Their fateful pact has built a marriage upon uneven compromises. And Joan’s reached her breaking point. On the eve of Joe’s Nobel Prize for Literature, the crown jewel in a spectacular body of work, Joan’s coup de grâce is to confront the biggest sacrifice of her life and secret of his career. She’s written every word.