After finding thatfallingplasterhad smashedallthecameras in hisstudio, portraitphotographer Arnold Genthe borrowedasmallKodak and recordedthe devastation as it overtook thecity.
If we're honest, Streep's also been known to overplay comedy, and yes, she does have to nibble on a banana in one of the movie's more predictable turns, but at heart this is a lovely portrait of repressed housewife and mother findingthe courage to put everything on the line late in life.