Tom & Viv

Willem Dafoe stars as groundbreaking early 20th century American poet T.S. Eliot in this biopic focusing on Eliot's disastrous marriage. Young Tom Eliot meets the flamboyant Vivienne Haigh-Wood (Miranda Richardson) while they are both students at Oxford University in England in 1914. Eliot is ...more

Something's missing from Tom and Viv, and that something is Tom, better known as T.S. Eliot. Films (or plays, for that matter) about writers are always difficult to pull off; the writer is presumably famous and interesting because of his work, not his life, and translating literary essence to another medium is practically impossible. Therefore, to provide drama and interest, a filmmaker usually concentrates on what was interesting and unusual in the writer's life and tries to relate that to his ...more