Griffin & Phoenix

(2006)

★ 7.1 IMDb · 194 votes

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Year: 2006

Runtime: 102 мин

Country: United States of America

Director: Ed Stone

Cast: Аманда Пит, Дермот Малруни, Сара Полсон, Блэр Браун, Alison Elliott, Лоис Смит, Jonah Meyerson, Max Morris, Simon Jones, Джесси Тайлер Фергюсон

Plot

A terminally ill man falls in love with a woman who has a secret that threatens their time spent together.

Griffin is divorced, living in a flat in Manhattan while his sons and ex live in the family home in Westchester. He gets bad news from his oncologist: cancerous lesions have spread through his chest, and he has only a year or so to live. He audits a psychology class on death and dying at a nearby college where he chats up a woman who turns out to be an assistant dean. She's Phoenix; she smiles but keeps her distance, warming to him slowly. He tells her nothing of his situation. At his apartment a few days later, she finds a stash of books on death, dying, and terminal illness: will she put two and two together, and what will she do about it?