Chastain will play Catherine Sloper - the part that won Olivia de Havilland her second Oscar for best actress.

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Strathairn, as Dr. Sloper, moves through space as if he wanted to rid it of nonsense including the inanities of his widowed sister, Lavinia Penniman (Judith Ivey).

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