Driving Lessons
Synopsis
However, Ben's world is turned upside down when he's employed by an eccentric retired actress Evie (Julie Walters). Vulgar, dignified and childish all at once, she certainly is not the kind of person Ben expected when searching through the job listings in the stuffy parish magazine, Hello Jesus. Evie enters Ben's life with a cataclysmic force, whisking him away on a series of adventures from camping to performing Shakespeare in the garden, to attending the Edinburgh Festival - where he finally meets a girl much nearer his own age.
Evie's unconventional and often downright bizarre behaviour challenges Ben's beliefs, and forces him to confront the very idea of who he wants to be. Then, when it seems that his new-found freedom is about to be taken away, Ben has to suddenly choose: should he continue to conform, or break out and live his life as his own man?
Driving Lessons is a heartfelt, touching and positively hilarious look at the effect one delightfully eccentric older woman can have on a young man with a lot to learn.
Details
- Year
- 2006
- Type of film
- Features
- Running time
- 95 mins
- Format
- 35mm
- Director
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Jeremy Brock 1st Feature
- Producer
- Robert Jones, Edward R Pressman, Alessandro Camon, Alexandra Ferguson
- Editor
- Trevor Waite
- Screenwriter
- Jeremy Brock
- Director of Photography
- David Katznelson
- Sound
- Colin Nicolson
- Principal cast
- Julie Walters, Rupert Grint, Laura Linney
Categories
Production Status
Production Company
Rubber Tree Plant Productions
Sales Company
ContentFilm International
19 Heddon StreetLondon W1B 4BG
UK
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