Sylvia: The Shooting ScriptThis is the story of Ted and Sylvia, a sensual, volatile, and brilliant married couple who emerged as two of the most influential writers of the twentieth century. Academy Award-winner Gwyneth Paltrow stars as legendary American author and poet Sylvia Plath, opposite Daniel Craig as British Poet Laureate Edward (Ted) Hughes. The film begins in 1956. Sylvia is in England on a Fulbright Scholarship when she meets Ted and within four months, they are married. The newly published Ted attracts the attention of the literary world, along with the attentions of admiring women. As the marriage frays, Sylvia's creative impulses surge, and her writing begins to flow forth in unstoppable bursts. |
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