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Tom & Viv

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Released: 2003-04-08

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Tom & Viv DVD Cast & Features Cast:
Geoffrey Bayldon, Lou Hirsch, Simon McBurney, Joseph O'Conor, John Savident, Linda Spurrier, Roberta Taylor, Donald Paul Pemrick, Christopher Baines, Clare Holman, Hugh Simon, Michelle Guish, Anna Chancellor, Joanna McCallum, Michael Attwell, James Greene, William Osborne, Willem Dafoe, Miranda Richardson, Rosemary Harris, Tim Dutton, Nickolas Grace, Philip Locke

Director(s): Brian Gilbert

Features:
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Dolby Digital Surround Sound
Widescreen (2.35:1), enhanced for 16 x 9 televisions
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Tom & Viv DVD Details
Video:
Cinemascope
Audio:
Dolby Digital Surround
Language:
English
Subtitles:
English
Running Time: 115
Genre: Drama
Item Weight: 1
UPC: 786936206500
Product Code: MRX02894200DVD
Format: DVD
Year:1994
Studio: Miramax
Tom & Viv DVD Summary Willem Dafoe stars as groundbreaking early 20th century American poet T.

S.

Eliot
in this biopic focusing on Eliot's disastrous marriage.

Young Tom Eliot meets the flamboyant Vivienne Haigh-Wood (Miranda Richardson) while they are both students at Oxford University in England in 1914.

Eliot is studying under the famous writer and philosopher Bertrand Russell (Nickolas Grace).

Tom and Viv elope after a very brief courtship, without the consent of her parents and against the advice of Viv's brother Maurice (Tim Dutton).

On the honeymoon, Tom learns that Viv suffers from a severe hormonal imbalance which causes frequent menstruation.

She is under the care of a doctor who calls her problems emotional and prescribes medications which worsen her condition.

Viv is moody, often despondent, and frequently drunk.

While Tom works as a bank clerk and tries to establish himself as a writer, Viv serves as his secretary and sometimes his muse, but more and more often she embarrasses them in public with her behavior.

Yet her influence prevents Tom, who wants to become thoroughly British and a member of the Church of England, from becoming too staid.

Eventually, Tom reluctantly commits his wife to a mental asylum and their troubled marriage continues to plague his life and color his work.