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The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

Synopsis

Dr Ravi Kapoor has reached the end of his tether. He is over-worked and exhausted; his South London hospital is out of funds; and reporters are hounding him about a pensioner, who for three days lay on a trolley in A and E, untended, the blood stiffening on her clothes. Even home life has become impossible, as his father-in-law, a disgusting and difficult old man, has been kicked out of his nursing home and has moved into Ravi's spare bedroom. But then that 'tip top man', his cousin, Sonny, has his brainwave, his 'great eureka'.

Details

Year
2012
Type of project
Features
Running time
124 mins
Format
35mm
Director
John Madden
Producer
Graham Broadbent, Peter Czernin
Co-Producer
Sarah Harvey, Caroline Hewitt
Executive Producer
Jonathan King
Editor
Chris Gill
Screenwriter
Ol Parker
Director of Photography
Ben Davis
Production Designer
Alan MacDonald
Composer
Thomas Newman
Principal cast
Maggie Smith, Bill Nighy, Tom Wilkinson, Judi Dench, Dev Patel

Genre

Literary Adaptation Comedy Drama

Categories

Fiction

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Blueprint Pictures

43-45 Charlotte St
London
W1T 1RS
UK
Tel: +44 (0)20 7580 6915
Fax: +44 (0)20 7580 6934
asst@blueprintpictures .com

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