Iris is a 2001 biographical film that tells the story of British novelist Iris Murdoch and her relationship with John Bayley. The film contrasts the start of their relationship, when Murdoch was an outgoing, dominant individual as compared to her timid and scholarly partner Bayley , and their later life, when Murdoch was suffering from Alzheimer's disease and tended to by a frustrated Bayley in their North Oxford home in Charlbury Road. The film, which was directed by Richard Eyre, is based on Bayley's memoir Elegy for Iris. The beach scenes were filmed at Southwold in Suffolk, one of... Murdoch's favourite haunts. Broadbent received the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role. Dench and Winslet were both nominated, for Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress respectively. When the young Iris Murdoch meets fellow student John Bayley at the University of Oxford, he is a naive virgin easily flummoxed by her libertine spirit, arch personality, and obvious artistic talent.
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| Release date: | December 14, 2001 |
| Directed by: | Richard Eyre |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 91 Minutes |
| Producer: | Scott Rudin, Robert Fox |
| Editor: | Martin Walsh |
| Music by: | James Horner |
| Cinematography: | Roger Pratt |
| Screenplay by: | Richard Eyre, Charles Wood |
| Estimated budget: | $5,500,000 |
| Adapted from: | Elegy for Iris |
| Genre: | Biography |