Forget
about the morbid adolescents of Restless, the cheesy
bromance of 50/50, and even the well-off academics of The
Barbarian Invasions. Adapted from a Pulitzer Prize-winning play by
Margaret Edson and directed by Mike Nichols in 2001, Wit stars
Emma Thompson as an unmarried English literature scholar diagnosed with advanced
ovarian cancer who realizes that all she can count on are her sharp intellect
and the metaphysical poems of John Donne.
