The Shadow Box

• Director: Paul Newman
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• Genre: Drama
• Movie Type: Psychological Drama
• Themes: Mothers and Daughters
• Release Year: 1980
• Country: US
• Run Time: 96 minutes

Plot

Advertised as "Paul Newman's First Film for Television," Shadow Box was more specifically the first TV movie to be directed by Newman. Moving in a slow, deliberate fashion, the film concerns three terminally ill people. Their stories intertwine as the unfortunate spend their last days with their families in a cottage-complex hospice. Christopher Plummer and Joanne Woodward play a pair of ex-spouses, whose chances for reconciliation are strained somewhat by the presence of Plummer's male lover Ben Masters. James Broderick plays a blue-collar worker, sharing precious final moments with wife Valerie Harper. And elderly Sylvia Sidney comes to terms with her daughter Melinda Dillon. Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Michael Cristofer, Shadow Box was co-produced by Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward's daughter Susan Kendall Newman. The Emmy-nominated drama was first telecast December 28, 1980. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Cast

James Broderick; John Considine; Melinda Dillon; Valerie Harper; Ben Masters; Christopher Plummer; Sylvia Sidney; Robert Urich; Joanne Woodward

Credit

Paul Newman - Director, Allan Jacobs - Editor, Henry Mancini - Composer (Music Score), Adam Holender - Cinematographer, Michael Cristofer - Play Author

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