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Eden

1998 · 106 min

A quiet, earnest drama that asks patience and rewards it with a slow swell of feeling.

Directed by: Howard Goldberg
Genres: Drama
Starring: Joanna Going, Dylan Walsh, Sean Patrick Flanery

Tagline: Let your spirits soar.
Overview: Story of a New England boys' school and of one of the students who is infatuated with an instructor's wife who has Multiple Sclerosis. The woman struggles to show her strict husband how love rather than demands helps the student to blossom, but finally she falls into a coma. While she is able to have some 'looking down' awareness of what is happening, her coma is what brings her husband to an understanding of the needs of others.

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Directed by: Howard Goldberg
Genres: Drama
Starring: Joanna Going, Dylan Walsh, Sean Patrick Flanery

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Tone: melancholicstrength 2 of 3
earneststrength 2 of 3
romanticstrength 1 of 3
tensestrength 1 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: love
parenthood
identity
isolation
healing
Places: school
single country house
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: None
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence none
Sex mild

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Action	1
Horror	1
Humour	1
Realism	7
Romance	4
Tension	3
Darkness	4
Complexity	4
Emotional weight	7

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Genres: drama
Directed by: Howard Goldberg
Written by: Howard Goldberg
Starring: Joanna Going, Dylan Walsh, Sean Patrick Flanery, Sean Christensen, Edward O'Blenis, John Aylward, Anne Christianson, Marjorie Nelson
Music: Brad Fiedel
Cinematography: Hubert Taczanowski
Runtime: 106 min
Country: United States of America
Languages: English

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