Iris

Here's a film that wants to do for Alzheimer's what Philadelphia did for AIDS. It recounts the marriage of novelist Iris Murdoch, showing her intellectual pomp in youth and decline into dementia. It might be moving, if you've never seen another movie.

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Richard Eyre directed Iris in 2001. See Richard Eyre's full filmography, where to start with Richard Eyre, or where to go after you've seen everything by Richard Eyre.

Iris was released in 2001 (EN original-language production), with a runtime of 91 minutes.