Iris - DVD [2002]

Two of acting's most brilliant talents take on the daunting role of renowned novelist and philosopher Iris Murdoch. Kate Winslet portrays the young Murdoch in her heady years at Oxford-unaware of future life events, she says, "There is only one freedom of any consequence: that of the mind"-while Dame Judi Dench masterfully conveys the later years of aging and Alzheimer's. In the forefront is husband and caretaker John Bayley (played by