The Last Station — Film Review "Station" has the potential to be a substantial art house hit. It also is the high-water mark in Michael Hoffman's 20-year career.

The life of Leo Tolstoy is certainly not as interesting as the man's works. Writer/Director Michael Hoffman knows this, and finds the conflict of his Tolstoy film The Last Station more in those around ...

“The Last Station” isn’t all that it should be, but whenever these two actors are onscreen, it’s like a great night at the theater. Grade: A- (Rated R for a scene of sexuality/nudity.) You ...

In the opening lines of "Anna Karenina," -- a Top 5 fixture on the "Greatest Novels Ever" charts -- Leo Tolstoy writes, "Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." ...

The Last Station, a lavishly produced period piece that glows with a faux authenticity, ... The Last Station: Not a film about Tolstoy. Clare Hurley. 20 February 2010.

In the pre-dawn hours of Oct. 28, 1910, Count Leo Tolstoy - not only the most famous man in Russia but a kind of secular saint - slipped from his country estate, dressed in peasant clothes and ...

Courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics Christopher Plummer plays Russian writer Leo Tolstoy as he deals with personal turmoil in “The Last Station.” One of the most passionate and volatile marital ...

The notion for “The Last Station” came from writer Jay Parini, who was so fascinated to discover that numerous people around Tolstoy in the fatal year of 1910 kept diaries with their versions ...

The final days of Tolstoy are innately dramatic, as the American author Jay Parini intuited. The Last Station, published in 1990, was his novel about the novelist’s own denouement. Towards the end of ...

In recent years, there’s been a trend toward rough-edged, realistic movies about dead famous people — movies that toss viewers into the past and force them to sink or swim. Judging by the ...