Away From Her (2007) October 10, 2007

When Fiona, a lively, witty woman begins to forget where she is, and it becomes clear that she has Alzheimer's disease, she and her husband Grant painfully consider a nursing home. Adding injury to pain, Fiona has not forgotten Grant's infidelity decades before. In the following months Grant must cope with Fiona's valiant creation of a new life. With poignant tenderness, tempered by a realistic portrayal of the personal and familial impact of memory loss, Polley beautifully crafts grandmaster short story writer Alice Munro's 'The Bear Came Over the Mountain' into an unforgettable portrait of a couple approaching the end of a 50-year-long love story with a mixture of devotion, fear and grace.