{"id":1242,"date":"2017-09-07T09:00:48","date_gmt":"2017-09-07T13:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.silvercentury.org\/2017\/09\/the-shadow-box-2\/"},"modified":"2018-06-30T09:48:41","modified_gmt":"2018-06-30T13:48:41","slug":"the-shadow-box-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/2017\/09\/the-shadow-box-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Shadow Box"},"content":{"rendered":"

1980, USA, 96 min.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In the California woods lies a complex of cabins where the slowly dying and their loved ones spend their remaining days, holding public therapy sessions with a somnolent-voiced interviewer. It\u2019s a controlled, almost sterile environment that radiates calm, but emotional damage accrues. An unappreciated daughter (Melinda Dillon) hides a secret from her senile mother (Sylvia Sidney); an estranged wife (Valerie Harper) longs for the fairly acrimonious past with her now-unflappable husband (James Broderick); and a gay writer (Christopher Plummer), trying to outwrite his mortality, falls into old habits when his blowsy ex-wife (Joanne Woodward) shows up. No matter how we try to demystify death\u2019s imminent arrival, the feelings of those left behind prevent a clean break\u2014and this may not be a bad thing. That message is delivered with nuance and resonance in Paul Newman\u2019s TV movie adaptation of Michael Cristofer\u2019s play.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the California woods lies a complex of cabins where the slowly dying and their loved ones spend their remaining days, holding public therapy sessions with a somnolent-voiced interviewer.<\/p>\n

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