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A Kind of Alaska

6.019841h 40mMovieDrama

A masterly study of a middle-aged woman waking up after 30 years passed in a coma induced by sleeping sickness. In her mind she is still 16, and her attempts to fathom the changed world into which she re-emerges is not only poignant and…

DirectorKenneth Ives
WriterHarold Pinter

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Cast · Directed by Kenneth Ives

PSPaul Scofield
Paul Scofield
Dr. Hornby
DTDorothy Tutin
Dorothy Tutin
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Susan Engel

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