Away from Her

Away From Her
Directed by	Sarah Polley
Written by	Alice Munro (short story) Sarah Polley
Produced by	Daniel Iron Simone Urdl Jennifer Weiss
Starring	Julie Christie Gordon Pinsent Olympia Dukakis Kristen Thomson with Michael Murphy and Wendy Crewson
Music by	Jonathan Goldsmith
Release date	2006
Running time	110 min.
Country	Canada
Language	English

Away From Her is a Canadian film which debuted at the 2006 Toronto International Film Festival. The feature-length directorial debut of Canadian actor Sarah Polley, the film is based on Alice Munro's short story "The Bear Came Over the Mountain", from the 2001 collection Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage.

The film stars Gordon Pinsent and Julie Christie as a couple whose marriage is tested when Christie's character begins to suffer from Alzheimer's and moves into a nursing home, where she loses virtually all memory of her husband and begins to develop a romance with another nursing home resident.

The cast also includes Olympia Dukakis, Michael Murphy, Wendy Crewson, Alberta Watson, and Kristen Thomson.

Atom Egoyan, Polley's director in The Sweet Hereafter, is the film's executive producer.

The film also played in the Premier category at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival.

The film was distributed by Lionsgate Films.

External links

• Away From Her Official Canadian Web site
• Away From Her Official American Web site
• Away From Her at IMDb
• Away From Her at Rotten Tomatoes
• Away From Her announcement and press kit/pictures
• Ex-child star stirs Toronto in directorial debut from the Washington Post (subscription required)
• Lionsgate to bring Polley's Away From Her to theatres from CBC Arts
• Directing her first movie, the ever-precocious Sarah Polley finds magic in age-old love from Macleans magazine
• The Bear Came Over the Mountain (short story, complete text)