Evening

About Evening

As Constance (Natasha Richardson) and Nina (Toni Collette) gather at the deathbed of their mother, Ann (Vanessa Redgrave), they learn for the first time that their mother lived an entire other lifetime during one evening 50 years ago. In vivid flashbacks, the young Ann (Claire Daines) spends one night with a man named Harris (Patrick Wilson), who was the love of her life.

Evening (2007) is a romance film directed by Lajos Koltai. Its themes are best friend, dying and death, summer, and mother.

Claire Danes takes the lead as Ann Grant, Toni Collette as Nina Mars, Vanessa Redgrave as Ann Lord, and Patrick Wilson as Harris Arden. Released in June 2007, it runs 117 minutes.

The screenplay is by Michael Cunningham and Susan Minot. The film began as a novel.

Brideshead Revisited, Cockles and Muscles, and Forrest Gump make useful companions to Evening, all filed under new love and parent child relationship. TMDB voters put it at 5.8 out of 10 across 187 votes and it carries a PG-13 rating.