The Last Station 
Wednesday March 24, 2010
7:00pm
It's certainly not true that Count Leo Tolstoy was unrecognizable in his day - he was revered as Russia’s greatest writer - but one of the terrific things about writer-director Michael Hoffman’s The Last Station is that, Christopher Plummer plays him. The old master is, of all things, a recognizable human being. He's not an icon. At least not to himself and his adoring, long suffering wife, Sofya, played with ravenous theatricality by Helen Mirren. The film is about many things, including the rise of quasi-socialist communes devoted to passive resistance that sprang up around Tolstoy in his final days, but it's finally, and most successfully, about the amorous battle between the count and countess.

Director: Michael Hoffman   Cast: James McAvoy, Christopher Plummer, Paul Giamatti, Helen Mirren

Year: 2009 | Country: Germany, Russia, UK | Language: English | 112 min |  Drama | Rating: NR