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Title: WIFE, the

Reference number: 13936

Date: 2018

Director: d. Björn L. Runge

Sponsor: National Lottery through Creative Scotland, Swedish Film Institute

Production company: Meta Film London, Anonymous Content

Sound: sound

Certificate: 12

Colour: col

Fiction: fiction

Running time: 101.00 mins

Description: Over their forty year marriage, Joan Castleman has sacrificed her own literary ambitions to support her husband Joe’s literary career. When Joe receives the Nobel Prize for Literature, Joan reflects on their marriage and the compromises she has made. [Synopsis taken from the BFI, https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/5bb0955c6d440, last accessed 25/11/21]

Catalogued from secondary sources including the BFI, BBFC, Screen Scotland and Creative Scotland websites.

Based on the book 'The Wife' by Meg Wolitzer.


[The Wife is supported by the National Lottery through Creative Scotland’s Screen Funding. Shot on location in Scotland, The Wife filmed on board Concorde at the National Museum of Flight in East Lothian, Hutcheson’s Hall in Glasgow and in Dumfries.]