Tell Me a Riddle (1980)
- Directed by
- Lee Grant
- Genre
- drama film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h 30m
- Rated
- PG
- Rating
- 6.8 of 10 from 5 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
An elderly couple revisits their life together as the wife's health declines. Their marriage's past conflicts and buried emotions surface during the journey.
poignantcontemplativebittersweetintimatereflectivesombertenderatmospheric
What happens
Tell Me a Riddle is a 1980 American drama film directed by actress Lee Grant. The screenplay by Joyce Eliason and Alev Lytle is based on the 1961 O. Henry Award novella from Tillie Olsen's collection of short stories of the same name. Tell Me a Riddle was Grant's first film as director. Grant and Eliason would later collaborate on David Lynch's Mulholland Drive. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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