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Original title

Brush with Fate

Year

2003

Running time

100 min.

Country

United States

Director

Brent Shields

Screenwriter

Richard Russo. Novel: Susan Vreeland

Cast

Music

Lawrence Shragge

Cinematography

Eric Van Haren Noman

Producer

Hallmark Hall of Fame Productions, CBS Productions

Genre

Drama. Mystery | Nazism. TV Movie

Synopsis

Richard is a new art teacher at a high school. Cornelia Englebrecht (played by Glenn Close) is a history teacher who invites Richard to see a painting of a young girl at a table, which she believes to be a genuine Vermeer, where she tells him stories, which are portrayed as flashbacks about the people who owned the painting in the past. All of the stories take place in Holland, and the flashbacks happen mostly before the one preceding it. The first story, from the late 1800s, involved a romance and had flashbacks within flashbacks. Another story took place in the early 1700s when a baby was abandoned during a flood after a dike break. The painting accompanied the baby and was intended to be sold for the baby's expenses. In the next story, a man left a university to take a job working with the machinery used for the dikes. He got interested in a servant girl who was punished by being put in stocks. It is revealed in this story where the baby came from. The next story was very brief, and in it, a woman, who was unsuccessful in bidding for the painting at an auction, seemed to know more about the painting than the auctioneer. The next story revealed how Vermeer came to paint the girl's picture. Finally, Cornelia tells us how she came in possession of the painting, and it is perhaps the most interesting story of them all...

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Brush with Fate (TV)

2003

Brent Shields