Actor Bob Balaban, left, directs actor Ralph Fiennes on the set of HBO's "Bernard and Doris." (MCT)

Bob Balaban, behind the camera for HBO's ‘Bernard and Doris'

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Bernard and Doris

Regular airtime: Saturday, 8pm ET (HBO)

Cast: Susan Sarandon, Ralph Fiennes, James Rebhorn, Nick Rolfe, Peter Asher

US release date: 9 February 2008

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Review: Bernard and Doris

Cynthia Fuchs

08.Feb.08

As much as Bernard and Doris is a love story, it is also a study of the difficulties of class and sex, the ways that both complicate intimacy.

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