Anyone who's ever revisited a meaningful place years after they were last there will know how poignant it can Nine and a half weeks (1986) full movie onlinebe.

The surroundings are familiar, but that often only serves to draw attention to how much time has passed in between.

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On Sunday, actor Anthony Hopkins shared a video from a filming location featured in the 1993 movie Shadowlands.

"So this is where we started the film Shadowlands, and 23 years ago I sat here," says Hopkins. "Ted Hardwicke sat here, he's dead and gone, I sat over there. Debra Winger came in over there. That was the first day filming.

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"The happiness then. The pain now. That's the deal."

That final sentence really is a gut-punch, isn't it? It's actually a play on a line spoken by Winger's character Joy Gresham to Hopkins' character Jack Lewis in the film: "The pain then is part of the happiness now."

Actor Maurice LaMarche's reaction to Hopkins' video probably summed it up best.

The very definition, indeed.


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