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• 2008
• US
• 112 min
• 15

• Directed by: Isabel Coixet
• Written by: Screenplay:, Nicholas Meyer, Novel:, Phillip Roth
• Cast: Penélope Cruz, Ben Kingsley, Dennis Hopper, Patricia Clarkson, Peter Sarsgaard

Coixet's take on Roth's novella 'The Dying Animal' is a fine and delicate adaptation. Ageing college professor and womaniser David Kepesh (Kingsley) plucks young woman Consuela (Cruz) out of his literature class and embarks on an affair, his growing love for her forcing him to confront his own future and impending old age.

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