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Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold

  • PG-13
  • 2017
  • 1h 32m
  • Documentary
  • 7.4

Literary icon Joan Didion reflects on her remarkable career and personal struggles in this intimate documentary directed by her nephew, Griffin Dunne.

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Storyline

Literary icon Joan Didion reflects on her remarkable career and personal struggles in this intimate documentary directed by her nephew, Griffin Dunne.

Cast

Joan DidionSelf
Griffin DunneSelf
Hilton AlsSelf
David HareSelf
Phyllis RifieldSelf
Amy RobinsonSelf
Shelley WangerSelf
Harrison FordSelf
Tom BrokawSelf
Susanna MooreSelf
Vanessa RedgraveSelf
Robert B. SilversSelf
Calvin TrillinSelf
Anna WintourSelf
Patricia HearstSelf (archive footage)
Janis JoplinSelf (archive footage)

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