The Great Lillian Hall

2024

Action / Adventure / Biography / Drama / History / Mystery

16
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 93% · 19 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 93% · 100 ratings
IMDb Rating 7.3/10 10 2379 2.4K

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Plot summary

Lillian Hall, a Broadway actress, has never missed a performance throughout her long, illustrious career. Yet in rehearsals for a new play her confidence is challenged. People and events conspire to take away her ability to do what she loves most.

Director

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Michael Cristofer

Top cast

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Pierce Brosnan as Ty Maynard
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Kathy Bates as Edith Wilson
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Jesse Williams as David Flemming
Lily Rabe Photo
Lily Rabe as Margaret Tanner
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1008.8 MB
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23.976 fps
1 hr 49 min
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2.02 GB
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1 hr 49 min
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1 hr 49 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by EUyeshima 7 / 10

A Sublime Lange in a Valedictory Lap

There is no other actress who could've played the title role with such fervent theatrical flourish and deep emotional conviction in this small-scale 2024 drama. Jessica Lange has built up her stage credentials to match her significant screen accomplishments, so at 75, she is perfectly cast as a theatrical legend in the autumn of her career starring in a revival of Chekhov's "The Cherry Orchard". At the same time, she is diagnosed to be in the early stages of dementia. Forgetting her lines at rehearsals and increasingly confused about the world around her, Lillian copes with trying to live up to her own lofty expectations as well as defrosting a contrived relationship with her daughter whose resentment threatens to untether their shaky connection. A sturdy supporting cast surrounds Lange with expert assurance: Kathy Bates predictably cast as Lillian's no-nonsense assistant, Lily Rabe as the forgotten daughter, Jesse Williams as the patient young director, Pierce Brosnan as a convenient neighbor, and Cindy Hogan as the sharp-tongued mercenary producer. There were moments that seemed too on-the-nose to be dramatically effective like an impromptu mother-daughter duet of "Mockingbird", but Lange somehow transcends it all with her unique virtuosity.
Reviewed by seandiamondryan 6 / 10

How can anyone give this better than a 7??

You people are truly insane! "The great Jessica Lange"?? What were you all saying for 25 years after King Kong when she was just a pretty face once?? She was great sure. The movie was pretty good. They dragged her not telling anyone out for an entire hour... Hardly talking about the illness at all but just the story of hiding it. An 8.3???? So The Godfather? Pulp Fiction? That's what you 10 raters have pushed this only ok film to. A BLOCKBUSTER! So many idiots! Please stop if you've rated 15 20 30 maybe even 40 movies with 10 stars you've rated way way way too many. Not every movie you see that you like is a 10.
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