Streep and Collette Make It an All-Star Evening

Pulitzer Prize-winning gay author Michael Cunningham will reunite with Meryl Streep and Toni Collette - who starred in the screen version of his acclaimed novel The Hours - for Evening, a film based on the book by Susan Minot.

Cunningham is penning the script for the film, which stars Vanessa Redgrave as a woman dying of cancer who wants to let her daughters know about the importance of her life's defining moments.

The extraordinary cast also includes Patrick Wilson (who played Angels in America's hunky gay Mormon), Glenn Close, Claire Danes, Hugh Dancy, and Redgrave and Streep's real-life respective daughters, Natasha Richardson and Mamie Gummer.

Director Lajos Koltai is currently shooting the film in Rhode Island for Focus Features, no doubt with one eye firmly placed on the 2007 Oscar race.