Iris - DVD

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Cast

• Eleanor Bron - College Principal
• Jim Broadbent - John Bayley
• Joan Bakewell - TV Presenter
• Emma Handy - Policewoman
• Juliet Howland - Emma Stone
• Derek Hutchinson - Postman
• Stephen Marcus - Taxi Driver
• Pauline McLynn - Maureen
• Angela Morant - Hostess
• Tom Mannion - Neurologist
• Hugh Bonneville - Young John Bayley
• Matilda Allsopp - Little Stone
• Charlotte Arkwright - Young Phillida Stone
• Harriet Arkwright - Young Emma Stone
• Steve Edis - Pianist
• Pauline McGlynn - Maureen
• Samuel West - Young Maurice
• Nancy Carroll - BBC PA
• Judi Dench - Iris Murdoch
• Saira Todd - Phillida Stone
• Penelope Wilton - Janet Stone
• Timothy West - Old Maurice
• Gabrielle Reidy - Tricia
• Siobhan Hayes - Check-out girl
• Juliet Aubrey - Younger Janet
• Kate Winslet - Young Iris Murdoch
• Kris Marshall - Dr. Gudeon

Crew

• Makeup: Kate Benton
• Assistant Hair: Kate Benton
• Grip: Colin Manning
• Production Designer: Gemma Jackson
• Composer (Music Score): James Horner
• Executive Producer: Anthony Minghella
• Costume Designer: Ruth Myers
• Executive Producer: Guy East
• Producer: Steve Earnhart
• Executive Producer: David M. Thompson
• First Assistant Director: Martin Harrison
• Gaffer: Chuck Finch
• Set Designer: Trisha Edwards
• Executive Producer: Tom Hedley
• Cinematographer: Roger Pratt
• Executive Producer: Sydney Pollack
• Producer: Scott Rudin
• Executive Producer: Harvey Weinstein
• Editor: Martin Walsh
• Screenwriter: Charles Wood
• Casting: Celestia Fox
• Post Production Supervisor: Stephen Barker
• Art Director: David Warren
• Supervising Sound Editor: Glenn Freemantle
• Line Producer: Michael Dreyer
• Art Department Assistant: Nina Ross
• Second Unit Director Of Photography: Nick Schlesinger
• Re-Recording Mixer: Mark Sheffield
• Makeup: Lesley Smith
• Special Effects: The Mill
• Makeup: Jane Walker
• Assistant Hair: Jane Walker
• Stunts: David Ware
• Scenic Artist: Howard Weaver
• Electrician: Michael White
• Casting Associate: Kristy Wilkinson
• Assistant Costumer Designer: Nicole Young
• Makeup: Gillian Elisa Thomas
• Assistant Hair: Gillian Elisa Thomas
• Storyboard Artist: Janet Clark
• Re-Recording Mixer: Nicolas LeMessurier
• Animal Trainer/Wrangler: AI Animals
• Camera Operator: Paul Bond
• Foley Artist: Paula Boram
• Makeup: Buxton Jayne
• Assistant Hair: Buxton Jayne
• Assistant Location Manager: Rebecca Chambers
• Unit Publicist: Sarah Clark
• Production Coordinator: Mel Claus
• Re-Recording Mixer: Anthony Cleal
• Art Department Assistant: Charlie Cobb
• Unit Publicist: Clive Coote
• Foley Artist: Felicity Cottrell
• Electrician: Perry Cullen
• Makeup: Julie Dartnell
• Assistant Hair: Julie Dartnell
• Location Manager: Tom Elgood
• Casting Associate: Liam Flavell ,Rebekah Griffiths
• Foley Editor: Matt Grime
• Stunts: Carly Harrop
• Production Executive: Jane Hawley
• Assistant Art Director: Paul Inglis
• Unit Publicist: International Publicity
• Makeup: Antonia Kruger
• Assistant Hair: Antonia Kruger
• Production Accountant: Maurice Landsberger
• Electrician: Simon Lucas
• Unit Publicist: Macdonald & Rutter
• First Assistant Editor: Steve Maguire
• Grip: Keith Manning
• Storyboard Artist: Pippa Marks
• Second Assistant Director: Finn McGrath
• Stunts: Lee Millhan
• Musical Direction/Supervision: Julyce Monbleaux
• Special Effects Supervisor: Peter Notley
• Properties Master: Tom Pleydell-Pearce
• Production Manager: Ti Porter
• Post Production Coordinator: Louise Seymour
• Sound Editor: Tom Sayers
• ADR Editor: Gillian Dodders
• Dialogue Editor: Gillian Dodders
• Assistant Location Manager: Nick Williams
• Script Supervisor: Cathy Doubleday
• Casting Assistant: Alex Johnson
• Unit Publicist: Paul Almond
• Production Executive: Joanie Blaikie
• Producer: Robert Fox
• Director: Richard Eyre
• Screenwriter: Richard Eyre
• Choreography: Jane Gibson
• Production Sound: Jim Greenhorn
• Music Editor: Andrew Glen
• Hair Styles: Lisa Westcott
• Makeup: Lisa Westcott
• Unit Publicist: MacDonald & Rutter
• Re-Recording Mixer: Nicolas Le Messurier
• Book Author: John Bayley
• Music Editor: Andy Glen
• Storyboard Artist: Jane Clark

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Iris: AMG Review
Richie Unterberger , AMG

Richard Eyre's film is a straightforward drama of both the final and early courtship stages of the marriage between famed British novelist and intellectual Iris Murdoch and John Bayley. The prime, mildly unusual element, perhaps, is the alternation between two time periods, the principal scenes showing their relationship in old age as Murdoch is ravaged by Alzheimer's disease, the rest shown in flashbacks to the days in which they first met and their romance flowered. Since it's cinematically conventional, if highly accomplished, the film relies upon its acting to lift it above the ordinary, and on that count it does deliver. Jim Broadbent was justly acclaimed for his portrayal of the older Bayley, befuddled and taxed by his wife's decline, occasionally even prone to anger, but never flagging in his love, even when her verbal coherence has all but disappeared. Just as good, however, are the performances by Judi Dench as the older Murdoch (convincingly changing from esteemed, erudite literary icon to the nearly helpless and witless) and Hugh Bonneville as the stuttering, inexperienced younger Bayley, his reticence overcome by his infatuation with Murdoch. This isn't the place to learn much about Murdoch's writing; the narratives occur in the periods around the publication of her first and last books, with nothing on the intervening decades. There are her many books for that if you want to investigate further, of course, and Iris is not so much a docudrama of a life as a sympathetic but realistic look at the final stages of a marriage ended by tragic illness, as well as the struggle for dignity in the face of inevitable loss and death. ~ Richie Unterberger, All Movie Guide