A Short Stay in Switzerland PT9 FIM

Julie Walters has become a kind of brand - the best kind.
Give her a role with any substance and you know she'll
deliver a Bafta-worthy performance and leave the udience
damp-eyed. And so it proves here, in the moving true story
of Bath doctor Anne Turner. Having watched her husband
suffer a slow, undignified death, she was diagnosed with
similar neurological condition. "Rotten bad luck," her
character muses. Walters plays Turner as the best kind of
frank, feisty, upper-middle-class mum. "Let battle commence," she cries as she sets about taking on the
illness she knows is incurable, but she soon decides she
should be allowed to take her own life with dignity, even if
UK law doesn't allow "assisted dying". It's a decision her
three grown-up children struggle to cope with. Sadly, their
characters are short-changed by Frank McGuinness's
script; far better is Harriet Walter as a Christian friend with
whom Turner has a searing confrontation over a last ame
of chess. It's one of several shattering scenes in a drama
that forces us to think hard about some big questions.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Julie Walters
• BBC
• drama
• Lyndsey Marshal
• Frank McGuinness
• assisted Suicide
• Dr Anne Turner
• Patrick Malahide

[gicandido]

Thanks for the comment folks !!!

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[iZOMBIEZ1994]

the music makes it so sad 2, classic julie walker is a fantastic actor

[gicandido]

Yeah...really sad : (

Julie was really amazing : )

Thanks for comment !

[davidjohnbrewer]

I cried the second time of watching this it is incredibly moving, and what anne turner would I think have wanted.

To publicise the fact that we are not allowed to be given the right to die with some dignity in this country is awful. The law needs to be changed to prevent people from having to endure and suffer such degenerative and terminal illnesses.

My thoughts are with this family and any others who have psp sufferers in their own.

[gicandido]

Yeah..i cried on that scene too > (

Yeah..i think the law needs to be change too..i think we need the choice to choose life or death .

[robbierandom]

The most moving piece of drama I have ever seen. She is so brave, so so brave.

I feel for every person going through this situation, my heart goes out to you all.

thanks for uploading :)

[BiggestFanOfAnubis]

@the16v17

Me to :|

[BiggestFanOfAnubis]

it's so a sad movie, ilove this movie ♥

[eclipseyuki]

Such a moving movie.......To think this really happened to someone, makes you think about how fortunate we all are. Anne was so brave. It takes a lot of courage to know that you've chosen to die. But there's no way she died in vain. Anne, wherever you are, I respect you and I hope more people do. This proves we need a new Law in the UK. If God says we have free will, then surely we could use it to end our own lives? Having to travel to another country to end your suffering is ridiculous.

[Clorell]

And if thy hand offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter into life maimed, than having two hands to go into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched: Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.

[BrotherOfBullets]

singing part was cheesy 

[EyeSowwyMama]

What an incredible film

[lilraz08]

is it just me who was laughing? :D

i don't think i have ever cried at a movie in my life :L

[the16v17]

have been crying since part 1 of the movie.

[GORDON49X]

LOL at the way her children all get to work desperately opening chocolates! :L hahahaha

[XIHeartMerylStreepX]

Whats the song they sing? plz answer. I LOVE you Julie, You heartbreakingly amazing woman...