The Mermaid chair

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bulletTitolo originale : The mermaid chair.
bulletRegia : Steven Schachter.
bulletGenere : Drammatico.
bulletCast : Kim Basinger (Jessie Sullivan), Bruce Greenwood, Victoria Anderson, Tammy Gillis, Debra Mooney, Marsha Regis.
bulletDistribuzione : LifeTime Tv.
bulletLa storia : A married woman (Basinger) falls in love with a Benedictine monk. "I think a woman wants love and freedom at the same time. When I was writing the book, I was exploring that concept. I think a lot of women can relate to it.". — Author Sue Monk Kidd. Take a journey of mystery, passion and self-discovery with Academy Award® winning actress Kim Basinger in a powerful story based on the best-seller "The Mermaid Chair." The movie follows married mom Jessie, who just sent her daughter off to school and now feels alone and listless in her 20-year marriage. When this restless wife gets a disturbing phone call, she must return to her childhood home on a beautiful Southern island to deal with the shocking behavior of her mentally unstable mother. During this visit, she finds herself undeniably attracted to a Benedictine monk. While struggling with this temptation and delving into her family's secretive past, Jessie undergoes a spiritual, artistic and erotic awakening. Her experiences on the island lead Jessie to discover her true self and what she really wants from her life. Directed by: Steven Schachter
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Curiosità : Alcune curiosità sul tv movie.
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Il film-tv è tratto dal romanzo di Sue Monk Kidd.

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PRESS RELEASE: LIFETIME TELEVISION AND RANDWELL PRODUCTIONS SECURE RIGHTS TO SUE MONK KIDD’S NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLING NOVEL, THE MERMAID CHAIR. Book to be Developed Into LIFETIME Original Movie. LOS ANGELES – Sue Monk Kidd’s bestselling novel, The Mermaid Chair, will take a seat at LIFETIME Television, it was announced today by Trevor Walton, Senior Vice President, Original Movies. The book currently resides at the top of the New York Times Best Seller List. “We are ecstatic to develop Sue’s popular novel as a LIFETIME Original Movie,” said Walton. “Readers from across the country have flocked to the bookstores to buy The Mermaid Chair, and we think our viewers will be equally excited to watch the movie.” Executive Producer Randy Robinson, from Randwell Productions, agrees. “Sue has only written two novels, the other being The Secret Life of Bees, and both raced to the top of the charts. Her talent is enormous and I can’t wait to bring this project to life on the small screen.”. The Mermaid Chair explores the inner life of marriage and the rebirth of one woman’s soul. Set on a South Carolina barrier island, it tells the beautiful and haunting story of 42-year-old Jessie Sullivan, a married woman who falls in love with a Benedictine monk and the crisis and self-awakening this ignites. Even though she was described by her English teachers as a “born writer,” Kidd didn’t start writing until later in life. The Mermaid Chair, released in the spring of 2005, has already sold over 700,000 copies. The Secret Life of Bees, published in 2002, sold over four million copies, spent over ninety weeks on the New York Times Best Seller List and is currently being adapted into a movie by Focus Films. Kidd serves on the board of advisors for Poets & Writers, Inc. and is a Writer in Residence at the Phoebe Pember House in Charleston, SC. Rights to The Mermaid Chair were optioned by Randwell Productions for the development of a LIFETIME Original Movie for LIFETIME Television. Randy Robinson (LIFETIME’S “Lies My Mother Told Me”) will serve as executive producer. Chad Oakes and Mike Frislev of Nomadic Pictures will produce. Regina Dantas of Bossa Entertainment is the international distributor. Popular screenwriter, Suzette Couture, will write the teleplay. Couture wrote “Vinegar Hill,” “The Book of Ruth” and “Martha, Inc: The Story of Martha Stewart.” LIFETIME is the leader in women’s television and one of the top-rated basic cable television networks. A diverse, multi-media company, LIFETIME is committed to offering the highest quality entertainment and information programming, and advocating a wide range of issues affecting women and their families. Launched in 1984, LIFETIME Television serves over 89 million households nationwide. In 1998, LIFETIME launched Lifetime Movie Network, now in more than 45 million homes, and in 2001, Lifetime Real Women. LIFETIME Television, Lifetime Movie Network, Lifetime Real Women, Lifetime Radio for Women, Lifetime Home Entertainment and Lifetime Online are part of LIFETIME Entertainment Services, a 50/50 joint venture of The Hearst Corporation and The Walt Disney Company.

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Editorial Reviews.
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Amazon.com. Sue Monk Kidd's The Mermaid Chair is the soulful tale of Jessie Sullivan, a middle-aged woman whose stifled dreams and desires take shape during an extended stay on Egret Island, where she is caring for her troubled mother, Nelle. Like Kidd's stunning debut novel, The Secret Life of Bees, her highly anticipated follow up evokes the same magical sense of whimsy and poignancy.
While Kidd places an obvious importance on the role of mysticism and legend in this tale, including the mysterious mermaid's chair at the center of the island's history, the relationships between characters is what gives this novel its true weight. Once she returns to her childhood home, Jessie is forced to confront not only her relationship with her estranged mother, but her other emotional ties as well. After decades of marriage to Hugh, her practical yet conventional husband, Jessie starts to question whether she is craving an independence she never had the chance to experience. After she meets Brother Thomas, a handsome monk who has yet to take his final vows, Jessie is forced to decide whether passion can coexist with comfort, or if the two are mutually exclusive. As her soul begins to reawaken, Jessie must also confront the circumstances of her father's death, a tragedy that continues to haunt Jessie and Nelle over thirty years later. By boldly tackling such major themes as love, betrayal, grief, and forgiveness, The Mermaid Chair forces readers to question whether moral issues can always be interpreted in black or white. It is this ability to so gracefully present multiple sides of a story that reinforces Kidd's reputation as a well-respected modern literary voice.

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From Publishers Weekly. Starred Review. Jessie Sullivan, the protagonist of this rewarding second novel by the author of the bestselling Secret Life of Bees, is awakened by a shrilling phone late one night to horrifying news: her mother, who has never recovered from her husband Joe's death 33 years earlier, has chopped off her own finger with a cleaver. Frantic with worry, and apprehensive at the thought of returning to the small island where she grew up in the shadow of her beloved father's death and her mother's fanatical Catholicism, 42-year-old Jessie gets on the next plane, leaving behind her psychiatrist husband, Hugh, and college-age daughter, Dee. On tiny Egret Island, off the coast of South Carolina, Jessie tries to care for her mother, Nelle, who is not particularly eager to be taken care of. Jessie gets help from Nelle's best friends, feisty shopkeeper Kat and Hepzibah, a dignified chronicler of slave history. To complicate matters, Jessie finds herself strangely relieved to be free of a husband she loves—and wildly attracted to Brother Thomas, né Whit O'Conner, a junior monk at the island's secluded Benedictine monastery. Confusing as the present may be, the past is rearing its head, and Jessie, who has never understood why her mother is still distraught by Joe's death, begins to suspect that she's keeping a terrible secret. Writing from the perspective of conflicted, discontented Jessie, Kidd achieves a bold intensity and complexity that wasn't possible in The Secret Life of Bees, narrated by teenage Lily. Jessie's efforts to cope with marital stagnation; Whit's crisis of faith; and Nelle's tormented reckoning with the past will resonate with many readers. This emotionally rich novel, full of sultry, magical descriptions of life in the South, is sure to be another hit for Kidd.

bulletUscita : Lifetime Tv, 9 settembre 2006.

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