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
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
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)
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