Collected Stories
Collected Stories ★★★ 2002
Fine twocharacter study based on the 1997 play by Margulies, who adapted for this PBS presentation. Ruth Steiner (Lan vin) is a respected writer and teacher in her mid50s who lives comfortably in her Greenwich Village apartment. It's there that Ruth agrees that ambitious graduate student and aspiring writer Lisa Morrison (Mathis) will become her assistant. Over six years, their relationship evolves into a friendship, which Lisa betrays when she turns the scandalous details of Ruth's life into a bestselling novel. 120m/C VHS . Linda Lavin, Samantha Mathis; D: Gilbert Cates; W: Donald Margulies; C: Johnny (John W.) Simmons; M: Charles Fox. TV
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