Emma Thompson
won an Academy Award for her dynamic portrayal of Margaret Schlegel, a flighty yet compassionate middle - class intellectual whose friendship with the dying wife (Vanessa Redgrave) of
rich capitalist Henry Wilcox (Anthony Hopkins) commences an intricately woven
tale of money, love, and death that encompasses the country's highest and lowest social echelons.
When an award -
winning writer / director and an A-List cast work together on a good old rags - to -
riches tale inspired by self - made millionaire Joy Mangano's life, what could possibly go wrong?