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| Stars Jill Clayburgh and Peter Falk look like a loving couple, slouched by the surf on this TV-poster for Griffin and Phoenix |
Two terminally ill people meet each other in a group that deals with relating to death, and they fall for one another. While their illnesses progress, their romance turns into love.
Griffin and Phoenix is written by John Hill (Little Nikita (1988)) and directed by great British Columbian filmmaker Daryl Duke (Payday (1973)).
The film really focuses on these two individual's specific story: We learn incredibly little about his wife and children, and her situation and family, just as the details of their cancers are supplanted by the connection that they allow themselves to enjoy. Instead the film is about that precious time that they share, in which they release an unrestrained, infectious lust for life and joys in their dying moments.
Peter Falk (Target: The Corruptors! (1961, TV-series)) and Jill Clayburgh (Rich in Love (1992)) carry the film formidably and are lovely to a degree in which it feels like we are falling in love with them as an audience. There are fun moments, too, in this tender portrait of a love relationship, SPOILER albeit a short one, as it ends in the inevitable, bittersweet final stop. Griffin and Phoenix is a wonderful film.
Watch a 2-minute clip from the film here
Cost: Unknown
Box office: Unknown
= Uncertain - mainly a TV movie
[Griffin and Phoenix premiered 27 February (ABC) and runs 97 minutes. Shooting took place in Los Angeles. The film was so well-liked that it was released theatrically in several countries. It was nominated for a Primetime Emmy. It was remade with the same title in 2006 by Ed Stone. Duke returned as uncredited director on Shadow of the Hawk (1976). Falk returned in Murder by Death (1976); Clayburgh in Silver Streak (1976). 365 IMDb users have give Griffin and Phoenix a 7.5/10 average rating.]
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