Click here to copy URL

Hilary and Jackie

Drama This movie tells the true story of the tragic life of the brilliant international concert cellist Jacqueline Du Pré and her sister, Hilary. Despite starting out in music together, Hilary chooses a more normal life in having a husband and children. Jacqueline gets married too but can never seem to quite achieve the happiness of the mundane life Hilary has and Hilary's devotion to her sister causes them to take some rather drastic ... [+]
Author Review
United StatesUnited States
SFGATE
SFGATE
"Emily Watson is ravishingly good -- and brings an amazing focus and intensity to what could have been a disease-of-the-week picture"  POS
United StatesUnited States
Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times
"A compelling look at the most intimate and troubling of family dynamics" POS
United StatesUnited States
The New York Times
The New York Times
"One of the most insightful and wrenching portraits of the joys and tribulations of being a classical musician ever filmed"  POS
United StatesUnited States
AV Club
AV Club
"An astoundingly moving and elegiac meditation on life, love, music, and the bonds of blood" POS
United StatesUnited States
Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
"The movie makes no attempt to soften the material or make it comforting through the cliches of melodrama." POS
United StatesUnited States
Chicago Tribune
Chicago Tribune
"An imaginatively told tale of sibling rivalry and the pressures of great expectations" POS
We encourage you to check the reviews' original sources. Intellectual property rights of these reviews belong to their authors and/or the correspondent media from which they have been extracted. If you'd like to help us to add more reviews to your favorite movies, just send us a message.
arrow