James Cromwell, Still Mine

The versatile character actor James Cromwell got his first lead (at a youthful 73!) in the fact-inspired Still Mine. He plays a Canadian farmer facing his beloved wife’s (played by Genevieve Bujold) Alzheimer’s and a bureaucracy that prevents his building their retirement home. Cromwell notes that he liked his character’s battles: “My whole life has been about resisting authority. I got that from my father who was blacklisted,” he says of Hollywood Golden Age director John Cromwell, best know for 1934's Of Human Bondage.

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