Movie: The Fourposter

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Hume Cronyn
Hume Cronyn

Jessica Tandy
Jessica Tandy

Anita Cooper
Anita Cooper

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    The story takes place entirely in a bedroom dominated by a couple's four-poster bed, taking them through fifty years of marriage, through happiness and sorrow, through good times and bad, through childbirth, parenthood, and the eventual sadness from the absence of their children. In the end, they face the future together, while remembering their past.

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    1955-01-01

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