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Iris

Year:
Duration:
91 min
Genres:
Biography | Drama | Romance
IMDB rate:
7.1
Director:
Richard Eyre
Awards:
Won Oscar. Another 14 wins & 24 nominations
Details
Country: UK
Release Date: 2002-01-18
Filming Locations: Magpie Lane, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK
Earnings
Budget: $5,500,000
Opening Weekend: $23,144 (USA) (16 December 2001)
Gross: $5,580,479 (USA) (12 May 2002)
Cast
Actor
Character
Kate Winslet
Young Iris Murdoch
Hugh Bonneville
Young John Bayley
Judi Dench
Iris Murdoch
Jim Broadbent
John Bayley
Eleanor Bron
Principal
Angela Morant
Hostess
Penelope Wilton
Janet Stone
Siobhan Hayes
Check-Out Girl
Juliet Aubrey
Young Janet Stone
Joan Bakewell
BBC Presenter
Nancy Carroll
BBC PA
Kris Marshall
Dr. Gudgeon
Tom Mannion
Neurologist
Derek Hutchinson
Postman
Samuel West
Young Maurice
Juliet Howland
Emma Stone
Charlotte Arkwright
Young Phillida Stone
Harriet Arkwright
Young Emma Stone
Matilda Allsopp
Little Stone
Steve Edis
Pianist
Emma Handy
Policewoman
Timothy West
Older Maurice
Stephen Marcus
Taxi Driver
Pauline McLynn
Maureen (as Pauline McGlynn)
Gabrielle Reidy
Tricia
Tony Blair
Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
David Blunkett
Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Kenneth W Caravan
Psychoanalyst (uncredited)
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Trivia
Timothy West who plays "Older Maurice" and Samuel West who plays "Young Maurice" are father and son.
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This film also marks the second time that Judi Dench, and another actress playing the same part, have both been nominated for an Oscar. Previously, Dench won Best Supporting Actress for playing Queen Elizabeth I in Shakespeare in Love (1998), the same year that Cate Blanchett was nominated for playing the part in Elizabeth (1998).
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Only the second film (after Titanic (1997)) to have two actors nominated for an Academy Award for playing the same role in the same movie. In both films Kate Winslet played the younger version in the dual-nominee role.
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Goofs
When Iris and John are traveling to the nursing home, they are seen crossing a bridge. This bridge is Magdalene Bridge and leads to East Oxford, yet The Vale House, where Iris Murdoch spent the final years if her life, was (and still is) in South Oxford.
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When John gets his coat caught against the chair at the pub, a boom mic can be seen in the mirror behind him.
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When Iris and John go to visit Maurice Charlton, a reflection of the camera lighting is seen on the inside of the front door.
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Quotes
Iris Murdoch: I... wrote?
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Young Iris Murdoch: Yes, of course, there's something fishy about describing people's feelings. You try hard to be accurate, but as soon as you start to define such and such a feeling, language lets you down. It's really a machine for making falsehoods. When we really speak the truth, words are insufficient. Almost everything except things like "pass the gravy" is a lie of a sort. And that being the case, I shall shut up. Oh, and... pass the gravy.
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Iris Murdoch: Every human soul has seen, perhaps before their birth pure forms such as justice, temperance, beauty and all the great moral qualities which we hold in honour. We are moved towards what is good by the faint memory of these forms simple and calm and blessed which we saw once in a pure, clear light being pure ourselves.
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Photos from cast
Saira Todd
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