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Encyclopedia > Brush with Fate

Brush with Fate was a made-for-TV film debuted on February 2, 2003, on CBS. It followed the life of an imaginary painting by Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer as it passes through the hands of various people. The film was based on Girl In Hyacinth Blue, a novel by author Susan Vreeland, and starred Glenn Close and Ellen Burstyn. February 2 is the 33rd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... It has been suggested that CBS evening news anchors be merged into this article or section. ... Milkmaid (1658-1660) Johannes Vermeer or Jan Vermeer (October 31, 1632 - buried on December 15, 1675) was a Dutch painter who lived and worked in Delft. ... Glenn Close (born March 19, 1947) is a five time Academy Award-nominated American film and stage actress. ... Ellen Burstyn (born December 7, 1932 as Edna Rae Gillooly in Detroit, Michigan) is an Academy Award-winning American actress. ...


Plot

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

Richard is a new art teacher at a high school. Cornelia Englebrecht plays as a history teacher who invites Richard to see a painting of a young girl at a table, which she believes to be a genuine Vermeer, where she tells him stories, which are portrayed as flashbacks about the people who owned the painting in the past. All of the stories take place in Holland, and the flashbacks happen mostly before the one preceding it. The first story, from the late 1800s, involved a romance and had flashbacks within flashbacks. Another story took place in the early 1700s when a baby was abandoned during a flood after a dike break. The painting accompanied the baby and was intended to be sold for the baby's expenses. Holland is a region in the central-western part of the Netherlands. ... 1800 (MDCCC) was an common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... Events January 1 - Russia accepts Julian calendar. ...


In the next story, a man left a university to take a job working with the machinery used for the dikes. He got interested in a servant girl who was punished by being put in stocks, and became involved romancically.It is revealed in this story where the baby came from. Representation of a university class, 1350s. ...


The next story was very brief, and in it, a woman, who was unsuccessful in bidding for the painting at an auction, seemed to know more about the painting than the auctioneer. The next story revealed how Vermeer came to paint the girl's picture.


Tagline: A mystery hidden for generations. Now the truth will finally be revealed.


Cast

  • Ellen Burstyn – Rika
  • Glenn Close – Cornelia Englebrecht
  • Thomas Gibson – Richard
  • Phyllida Law – Maria
  • Kelly Macdonald – Aletta
  • Ger Apeldoorn – Man in Black
  • Patrick Bergin
  • Kieran Bew – Adrian
  • Daniël Boissevain – Sol
  • Horace Cohen – Faculty Man
  • Jenne Decleir – Young Laurens
  • Katja Mira Herders – Tannske
  • Marcel Jonker – Willem
  • Hugo Konings – Young Man
  • Caro Lensen – Joanna
  • Roef Ragas – Stijn
  • Thekla Reuten – Saskia
  • Erik van Beekum – Angry dike worker
  • Erwan van Buuren – Fritz
  • Laurien Van den Broeck – Magdalena
  • Carly Wijs – Faculty Woman

Ellen Burstyn (born December 7, 1932 as Edna Rae Gillooly in Detroit, Michigan) is an Academy Award-winning American actress. ... Glenn Close (born March 19, 1947) is a five time Academy Award-nominated American film and stage actress. ... Thomas Gibson (born on July 3, 1962 in Charleston, South Carolina) is an American actor currently starring in the CBS series Criminal Minds. ... Phyllida Law (born 8 May 1932) is a Scottish actress. ... Kelly Macdonald (born February 23, 1976) is a Scottish actress, born in Glasgow, Scotland. ... Patrick Bergin was born on February 4, 1951, in Dublin, Ireland, and christened Patrick Connolly Bergin. ... The current version of this biographical article or section reads like a résumé. THEKLA REUTEN Leading European Actress Whose Output Has Been Twice Oscar-Nominated Commands International Acclaim with Starring Roles in Film and TV Hits As a young Dutch actress with numerous internationally acclaimed films under her belt...

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Brush with Fate Review (460 words)
It is a fascinating novel about the provenance of art, but it is, even more, the story of a painting’s hold on a number of people in different countries and centuries, and the role it played in their lives.
Cornelia saves for last the story of the shameful circumstances under which her father acquired the painting -- circumstances that gave birth to the extensive eccentricities required for her to be able to keep, for so long, a terrible but exquisite secret.
Brush with Fate has its shortcomings, but is by and large a satisfying adaptation.
About The Book (185 words)
This is a fascinating collection of stories revealing compassion, mystery, humor and warmth, written by people from various walks of life as they tell about their personal brush with FATE.
A computer engineer experiences the touch of the unknown as he learns that the plane he was scheduled to be on has crashed into the World Trade Center.
The stories evoke the texture of life in an elegant yet gentle mosaic that confirms the unseen hand of fate touching all our lives.
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