The Last Station, 2009 (Grade A-)

Director: Michael Hoffman
Awards -- Academy Award nominations for actress, best supporting actor --plus nominated for Golden Globe and Independent Spirit Award, plus on list of top 100 films of 2010
Starring: Helen Mirren; Christopher Plummer; James McAvoy; Paul Giamatti; Anne-Marie Duff

sez says --this was a delight to watch. Mirren is seldom disappointing so I am a steady fan of her work --if she's in it, I'll go see it.  But this time she outdid herself.  And the outstanding acting was not all there was too it: the story was poignant.  What is the greater love: that which you have for those in your life who have made you what you are and been made what they are, by a life time spent together (such as a husband and wife of 50 years), or the love you should have for all of humanity through out the ages?  There is the ideal and the real.  And which is which.