Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont (2005)

Original title

Mrs Palfrey at The Claremont

Directed by

Dan Ireland

Genre

comedy drama

Country

United Kingdom, United States

Runtime

1h 48m

Rated

NR

Rating

6.7 of 10 from 45 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

An elderly widow moves into a residential hotel in London and forms an unlikely friendship with a younger writer. She pretends he is her grandson to impress the other residents.

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What happens

Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont is a 2005 US-produced comedy-drama film based on the 1971 novel by Elizabeth Taylor. It was directed by Dan Ireland and produced by Lee Caplin, Carl Colpaert and Zachary Matz from a screenplay by Ruth Sacks Caplin. The film stars Joan Plowright and Rupert Friend, with Zoë Tapper, Anna Massey, and Robert Lang. It is the final film role of Robert Lang, who died on 6 November 2004, a year before its release. The film is dedicated to his memory. The film was also dedicated to the memories of Sonia Mintz, Minnie Sacks, Lillian Espetein, Patricia Peckos, Thomas W. MacDonald and Clara Peralta Ramos de Varela, who also died before the film came out. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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