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The Portrait (1993)

The Portrait poster
Directed by
Arthur Penn
Genre
drama film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 30m
Rating
6.0 of 10 from 4 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A daughter returns to her childhood home to paint a portrait of her aging parents. As she works, old tensions and unspoken feelings between family members surface.

intimatereflectivebittersweetslow-burnemotionally resonantfamilialquietnostalgic

What happens

The Portrait is a 1993 American made-for-television drama film adapted from the play Painting Churches, directed by Arthur Penn, and starring Gregory Peck and Lauren Bacall. Cecilia Peck, who plays the daughter in the film, is the real-life daughter of actor Gregory Peck and his second wife Veronique Peck. The film was broadcast on TNT on February 13, 1993. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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