Away From Her (2007)

Away From Her is an English Canadian film which debuted at the 2006 Toronto International Film Festival. The feature-length directorial debut of English Canadian actress Sarah Polley, the film is based on Alice Munro's short story "The Bear Came Over the Mountain", from the 2001 collection Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage. The film stars Gordon Pinsent and Julie Christie as a couple whose marriage is tested when Christie's character begins to suffer from Alzheimer's and moves into a nursing home, where she loses virtually all memory of her husband and begins to develop a romance with another nursing home resident. The cast also includes Olympia Dukakis, Michael Murphy, Wendy Crewson, Alberta Watson, and Kristen Thomson. The film earned Julie Christie a nomination in the Best Actress category for the 65th Golden Globe Awards. Atom Egoyan, Polley's director in The Sweet Hereafter, is the film's executive producer. The film also played in the Premier category at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival. The film was distributed by Lionsgate Films.