Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, The - DVD

Legendary actress Nina Paw gives the performance of a lifetime in this touching drama about life and death. A taxi driver is diagnosed with a deadly disease, opting to embrace a shorter but poignant life instead of a long road of uncertain treatments. From playing pool to starting her own manga comic, she embraces what her daughter cannot understand. Along the way she forms a bond with a young boy who himself has just dealt with the loss of his brother.

Down-and-out Londoner Ernie Mott makes the best of things -- finding love here, dabbling in crime there. Still, there's a core of decency in Ernie. But a world of poverty and despair has little use for decency. Cary Grant plays Ernie in a milestone work set just before World War II. Gone is the usual Grant elegance. Instead, wistful Cockney Ernie is closer to the star's 'umble roots and Grant took great pride in his performance, which e

If John Singer could, he'd tell you about his inner world of beauty and dignity. But the card he holds must speak for him. "I am a deaf-mute. I read lips and understand what is said to me. Please do not shout." In the performance that earned him an Oscar nomination and New York Film Critics Award as 1968's Best Actor, future Academy Award winner* Alan Arkin is Singer in this film of Carson McCullers' acclaimed first novel. When he moves