A Short Stay in Switzerland (2009)

Directors

Simon Curtis

The story

Having recently witnessed the death of her husband from a neurological disease, Dr Anne Turner is diagnosed with near-identical illness progressive supranuclear palsy and determines to end her life once her condition has reached a critical point. As her health deteriorates, Anne's son, Edward, and two daughters, Sophie and Jessica, struggle to reach a consensus over their mother's intentions to end her life in an assisted dying facility (Dignitas) in Switzerland (where this is legal) and while they search for alternative options, silent recriminations and stubborn practicality threaten to tear the family apart. With her family at…

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