Dying at Grace

An extraordinary, transformative experience, Allan King’s Dying at Grace is quite simply unprecedented: five terminally ill cancer patients allowed the director access to their final months and days inside the Toronto Grace Health Centre. The result is an unflinching, enormously empathetic contemplation of death, featuring some of the most memorable people ever captured on film.

Canada
2003
143 minutes
Color
1.66:1
English

Available In

Collector's Set

The Actuality Dramas of Allan King

DVD Box Set

5 Discs

$55.96

Cast & Credits

Cast

Carmela Nardone
Joyce Bone
Eda Simac
Lloyd Greenway
Richard Pollard
with family and friends
The staff of the Palliative Care Unit
at the Salvation Army Toronto Grace Health Centre

Credits

Director: Allan King
Producer: Allan King
Cinematography: Peter Walker
Editing: Nick Hector
Sound recordist: Jason Milligan
Sound rerecordist: Michael Bonini

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