Tom and Viv

Tom is T.S. Eliot (Willem Dafoe), the St. Louis-born poet who tried to turn himself into an Englishman. Viv is his wife, Vivienne Haigh-Wood (Miranda Richardson). She's got money, which allows him to give up his job and focus on poetry. She urges him on, promotes him to the Bloomsbury group (which adopts him but looks down its nose at her), and begins to go slightly crazy. Is it Eliot's chilly demeanor (in a terrific repressed performance by Dafoe) that's driving her nuts, or something else? In fact, she suffers from misdiagnosed physical ailments, and a combination of drugs and alcohol send her around the bend. It's hard to get emotionally involved in Dafoe's Eliot or to really plug into this story, though Richardson's passion nearly pulls you in. --Marshall Fine

Movie Details

Cast: Willem Dafoe, Miranda Richardson, Rosemary Harris, Nickolas Grace, John Savident
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Running time: 115 min
DVD Aspect Ratios: 2.35:1

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DVD Features:

• Widescreen
• DTS Surround Sound

International rating:

Europe: 15

DVD International release dates:
North America: Apr 8, 03

VHS International release dates:
North America: Sep 11, 96