Wide-Eyed and Legless
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| Wide-Eyed and Legless | |
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| Directed by | Richard Loncraine |
| Written by | Jack Rosenthal Deric Longden |
| Starring | Julie Walters Jim Broadbent Thora Hird |
Release date | 1993 |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
Wide-Eyed and Legless (also known as The Wedding Gift) is a 1993 made-for-TV British drama film directed by Richard Loncraine. It is known in the US as The Wedding Gift.
It is based on the 1989 book Diana's Story by Deric Longden, who co-wrote the script with Jack Rosenthal.[1] It tells the story of his marriage to his wife, Diana, who contracts a chronic, degenerative illness that medical officials were unable to understand at the time (now believed to be Myalgic Encephalomyelitis). As Diana's health faltered, she secretly set him up with another woman to help ease his pain over her eventual death. A sequel dealing with Longden's mother's decline into dementia after his second marriage, Lost for Words, followed in 1999.
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References
- ^ "Deric Longden: Deric Longden, who has died aged 76, wrote books that brought a gentle and life-enhancing humour to the problems of living with disability". The Telegraph. 4 July 2013. Retrieved 3 September 2014.
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