The Lady in the Book - Sylvia Plath, portraits

January. 01,2016      
Rating:
5.5
Trailer Synopsis Cast

"The Lady in the Book" is Sylvia Plath, a major author of 20th-century American poetry and a feminist icon following her sudden death at the age of thirty. This film offers a glimpse into her world and work, through encounters with women who live today in the places where she grew up.

Sylvia Plath as  self

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Reviews

Greenes
2016/01/01

Please don't spend money on this.

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Livestonth
2016/01/02

I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible

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Fatma Suarez
2016/01/03

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

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Kayden
2016/01/04

This is a dark and sometimes deeply uncomfortable drama

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