Movie-A-Day #269: Tom and Viv (1994).

Today’s birthday boy is one of the most influential poets of the 20th century, T.S. Eliot. His tumultuous marriage to Vivienne Haigh-Wood, and the way her mental illness was dismissed and mistreated, are the subject of Michael Hastings’ play and subsequent film “Tom and Viv,” starring Willem DeFoe and Miranda Richardson.