The Portrait

• Director: Arthur Penn
• AMG Rating:
• Genre: Drama
• Movie Type: Family Drama
• Themes: Family Gatherings, Mothers and Daughters, Fathers and Daughters
• Main Cast: Lauren Bacall, Gregory Peck
• Release Year: 1993
• Country: US
• Run Time: 89 minutes

Plot

The Portrait, based upon the off-Broadway play by Tina Howe, is a made-for-cable film in which Gregory Peck and Lauren Bacall play Gardner and Fanny Church, aging parents of artist Mags (Cecelia Peck). As the film opens, Mags unexpectedly drops in on her parents, hoping that she can complete a portrait she has been working on for her one-woman show. As Gardner and Fanny are the subjects of the portrait, their cooperation is essential, but they pointedly refuse to help their daughter out. Even more surprisingly, it turns out that Mags has arrived as they are in the midst of moving out -- not only out of the family home in which Mags grew up, but out of the entire collegiate community where Gardner has for years been a respected figure. Her parents largely push aside Mags' attempts to find out why they are taking this drastic action, but it soon becomes clear that it involves Gardner, who seems to be entering the first stages of senility. Along the way, Mags discovers a great deal about her parents -- and herself. ~ Craig Butler, All Movie Guide

Cast

Lauren Bacall - Fanny Church; John Bennes - Bradley; Augusta Dabney - Elizabeth Hayden; Elliot Easton - Contractor; Pearl Jones - Grocery Clerk; Elizabeth Ann Klein - Faculty Wife #1; Mitchell Laurence - Ted Button; Jody Maxwell; Paul McCrane - Bartel; Donna Mitchell - Marissa Pindar; Joyce O'Connor - Samantha Button; Richard Olsen - Doctor; Lucille Patton - Saleswoman; Collin Wilcox Paxton - Chancellor; Cecilia Peck - Margaret Church; Gregory Peck - Gardner Church; William Prince - Hubert Hayden; Ed Lillard - Alan; George Gray - Gallery Man; John Murphy - Charles Wicstrom

Credit

Pat McCorkle - Casting, David Haugland - Co-producer, Julie Weiss - Costume Designer, Lynn Kelly - Costume Designer, Jerry Ballew - First Assistant Director, Arthur Penn - Director, Gregory Peck - Executive Producer, Robert Greenwald - Executive Producer, Carla Singer - Executive Producer, Michael Conway Baker - Composer (Music Score), Cynthia Millar - Composer (Music Score), Robert Guerra - Production Designer, Tony Westman - Cinematographer, Richard Quinlan - Cinematographer, Philip Kleinbart - Producer, Andrew Bernard - Set Designer, Lynn Roth - Screenwriter, Tina Howe - Play Author

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