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Synopsis

An impoverished woman who has been forced to choose between a privileged life with her wealthy aunt and her journalist lover, befriends an American heiress. When she discovers the heiress is attracted to her own lover and is dying, she sees a chance to have both the privileged life she cannot give up and the lover she cannot live without. –IMDb

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Iain Softley

Iain Softley (born November 30, 1956) is an English film director. He was educated at St Benedict’s School, Ealing, where he played the part of Thomas Becket in its 1975 production of T. S. Eliot’s play, Murder in the Cathedral, and Queens’ College, Cambridge.

His movies include the Beatles film Backbeat (1994), Hackers (1995), The Wings of the Dove (1997), K-PAX (2001), The Skeleton Key (2005) and Inkheart (2008). Softley also has been developing an adaptation of Stephen Gallagher’s novel The Boat House for Dimension Films, set in the English Lake District. He previously attempted to film the book in 1999, with Milla Jovovich in the lead role of a haunted and driven Russian émigré. —Wikipedia 

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Beatrice

9Dec12

" I wish I had wings of the dove so I could fly away. "

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Kelvane

5Jun12

Awesome, Helena Bonham Carter, I'm in.

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lasttimeisaw

25Mar12

an 8/10, my review: http://lasttimeisawdotcom.wordpress.com/2012/03/25/last-film-i-saw-the-wings-of-the-dove/

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[Last Film I Saw] The Wings of the Dove

By lasttim​eisaw on March 25, 2012

Title: The Wings of the Dove
Year: 1997
Language: English
Country: USA, UK
Genre: Drama, Romance
Director: Iain Softley
Writers:
Henry James
Hossein Amini
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