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Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold
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Title: Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold

Release Date: 11 Oct 2017

Runtime: 1h 32m

Genre: Documentary

Director: Didion Doc

Production Companies: Didion Doc

Overview: Griffin Dunne’s years-in-the-making documentary portrait of his aunt Joan Didion moves with the spirit of her uncannily lucid writing: the film simultaneously expands and zeroes in, covering a vast stretch of turbulent cultural history with elegance and candor.

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Average Vote: 7.2 (58 votes)

Cast

  • Self: Joan Didion
  • Self: Griffin Dunne
  • Self: Hilton Als
  • Self: David Hare
  • Self: Phyllis Rifield
  • Self: Amy Robinson
  • Self: Shelley Wanger
  • Self: Harrison Ford
  • Self: Tom Brokaw
  • Self: Susanna Moore
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