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A Short Stay in Switzerland

Julie Walters (Actor), Simon Curtis (Director) Rated:

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Genre	Kids & Family, Romance
Format	Multiple Formats, Color, NTSC, Widescreen
Contributor	Simon Curtis, Julie Walters
Language	English
Runtime	1 hour and 30 minutes

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WINNER / Best Actress - Julie Walters / International Emmy Awards

A true story of life & death, of love & family

Not long after the death of her husband from an incurable neurological disease, Dr Anne Turner (Julie Walters Billy Elliot, Mamma Mia!) is diagnosed with a near identical illness. With determined rationality, Anne decides that when her illness reaches a critical point, she will take her own life. To do this, she needs her children's support, but the more her children struggle to understand their mother's desire to die, the further they pull apart and the magnitude of the situation threatens to tear the family to pieces.

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Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ NR (Not Rated)
Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.5 x 5.25 x 0.5 inches; 3.2 ounces
Director ‏ : ‎ Simon Curtis
Media Format ‏ : ‎ Multiple Formats, Color, NTSC, Widescreen
Run time ‏ : ‎ 1 hour and 30 minutes
Release date ‏ : ‎ April 26, 2011
Actors ‏ : ‎ Julie Walters
Studio ‏ : ‎ Bfs Entertainment
ASIN ‏ : ‎ B004PHE97O
Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1

Best Sellers Rank: #19,483 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
- #759 in Romance (Movies & TV)
- #1,689 in Kids & Family DVDs
- #3,345 in Drama DVDs

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Lynne

Thought provoking

Reviewed in the United States on February 3, 2020

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Julie Walters earns again her title of national treasure in Britain with this masterful performance . She portrays the real life character with energy and creates a person whose struggles merit sympathy and compassion, rendering her decisions as awful yet understandable. The issue of assisted suicide is a thorny one, much debated, and this film seeks to illuminate it and does so admirably. Worth the required investment of time in viewing for performances alone,it will also predictably stimulate thought and conversation on a very important topic.

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Faye Girsh

Doctor seeks peaceful death

Reviewed in the United States on July 28, 2014

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A superb fictionalized account of an actual doctor, Anne Turner, stricken with a terminal neurological disease. She wants to end her life but struggles with her three children who find that unacceptable. They finally accompany her to Dignitas clinic in Switzerland where she has the peaceful death she desires.

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Patricia Aguinaco Bravo

Euthanasia A big challenge

Reviewed in the United States on April 13, 2014

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I liked very much. It is a very hard subject, sooner or later in Mexico an in all around the world will have to make a law about euthanasia.

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Gilli W

Hopefully one day there will be a cure

Reviewed in the United States on May 15, 2017

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An excellent drama. Made more poignant for me personally as my husband died from PSP

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stan pettigrew

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United States on February 11, 2015

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such an incredible moving story, much to think about, a film all politicians should view.

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Diane S.

Required watching

Reviewed in the United States on July 20, 2014

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Leaveit to the BBC to keep us well informed on important topics.

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FB Mckee

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United States on August 18, 2014

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it deals with a subject that i totally i agree with

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Should we really have the choice?

Reviewed in the United States on June 15, 2013

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Over the last 30 years or so we all have been exposed either by reading the paper or tv of people with terminal diseases wanting to take their own life. Sometimes it would require the help of others to assist them .There are even suicide clinics to "aid" the terminally ill.
This film deals with just this suject. A woman ,who in her own right is a medical Dr. and mother of three grown children is faced with this issue . We watch this woman deal with her physical agonies and humilations this illness causes. The mother knows exactly how this illness will progress and whether she and her family can cope watching her deteriation
This is not a new story but we are not placed just as observers of this movie but feel her pain and confusion as additional members of this family in crisis.Mom ,the Dr. has decided to take her own life. She will not deal with what she knows lis waiting for at any moment.
She discusses her decision with her adult childen.Their behavior is unexpected and appears to be selfish .
We have read this story many times as either assisted or intentional unasissted suicide.This story is presented to us not as if we are outsiders but it involves us in different ways.
The cast is composed of british actors (bbc production) and are quite good.

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Jan Church

Great

Reviewed in Canada on February 4, 2012

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I always am on the look out for great movies and was delighted to be able to get this one. It arrived in good time and in great shape.

Mrs. J. Jones

Brilliantly portrayed by Julie Walters

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 23, 2009

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If you didn't see this back in January - you have to buy this DVD. A touching true story about a doctor (Julie Walters) who nurses her husband through his degenerative illness and some time later, following his death is herself diagnosed with PSP - also a degenerative illness.
She has symptoms which she initially keeps from her children, but they become worried by her mood swings and general health. She eventually tells her children that she has PSP and they are devastated by the news.
As the PSP gets worse she decides that she would rather end her own life than go through the same pain & suffering that her husband did and so she makes enquiries about a euthanasia clinic in Switzerland and then convenes a meeting with her children to tell them of her plans.

A heart wrenching true story. One of the best films I have seen in recent years.

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Peter Budzik

It was useless to me and a waste of

Reviewed in Canada on May 8, 2016

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A big disappiontment as it arrived in the PAL format that I could not use on my DVDS player.
It was useless to me and a waste of money

goneXC

Superb but heavy going

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 21, 2012

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The BBC does some things very well and this is one of them. Julie Walters plays the British doctor who decides she can no longer live with the appaling neuro-degenerative disease she develops after seeing her husband die of something similar. It takes a while for her to gain her children's support and they accompany her to the Veritas clinic in Switzerland where she terminates her life. The final scenes are emotionally draining. It raises pertinant questions on the dignity of choosing one's own death with dignity. Powerful stuff worth watching.

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Holmlund Cristina

Subtitles missing

Reviewed in France on July 25, 2012

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It is a pity that subtitles are not available, not even in English. The films I bought from amazon USA, either DVD or video have allways subtitles, at least in the original language.

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