Edie 2017

     Edie is 83 years old and her husband has recently passed away.  They were married nearly 30 years.   She met him, they got married and soon after he had a stroke.  She feels like she hasn’t done anything in her life that she wanted to do.  When she got married, her father planned a climbing trip for them to the Scottish Highlands but they didn’t go.  Edie took care of her husband and he treated her badly.  He was cold, controlling and he kept her isolated.  She has a daughter but their relationship is strained and more so lately.  Nancy wants Edie to go into a retirement home.  Edie decides she must go on a camping adventure and climb Mount Suilven in Scotland.  Right away things start to go a bit badly.  She has a reservation for a place to stay but she is a day early and they don’t have accommodations for her?

     The scenery of the Scottish countryside is very beautiful.  Sheila Hancock in the role of Edie is a veteran of the Royal Shakespeare Company.  Edie really deserves this enlightening journey, she has paid her dues without much reward.  It will take courage, determination and strength for her to reach her goal of climbing Mount Suilven.  Edie has many wrinkles but she has wonderfully beautiful blue eyes.  4* (I really liked this movie)

Note:  Rotten Tomatoes 62% with 42 critics 70% with 103 user ratings, , Imdb 6.5* out of 10* with 1,455 reviews, Roger Ebert 3* Nell Minow, The Telegraphy 2* out of 5* Tiim Robey, Chicago Tribune 3* Mark Kennedy, Letterboxd 3.1* out of 5*, Metacritic 41 out of 100 with 11 critic reviews (positive 2, mixed 8, negative 1).

102 min, Drama directed and written by Simon Hunter and also written by Edward Lynden-Bell, Elizabeth O’Halloran with Sheila Hancock, Kevin Guthrie, Paul Brannigan, Amy Manson, Wendy Morgan, Rachael Keiller, Donald Pelmear, Daniela Brauer, Christopher Dunne, Tori Butler-Hart, Calum MacRae.

Special Note:  Everything that Edie does in this film was done by 84 year old actress Sheila Hancock!!  Filming on location in Sutherland in the Scottish highlands on the Assynt Estate and in Lochinver.