Wit (2001) Reviews & Ratings

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Wit reviews

Wit holds a 7.3/10 average from 134 TMDB ratings.

If you recall the "Paper Chase" (1973) you'll be familiar with the concept of a hard-nosed academic who teaches students with a barely veiled sense of contempt and ruthlessness. Well skip on almost three decades and it's Emma Thompson's "Vivian" who rules her class of English literature students with a similarly unforgiving rod of iron. Then she starts to feel a bit ropey and after a visit to her doctor (Christopher…
— CinemaSerf (7/10)

A renowned professor is forced to reassess her life when she is diagnosed with terminal ovarian cancer.

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