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Last Orders

Synopsis

Three men meet in the pub that's been their local for 40 years. Only today someone's missing - or is he? Vic slides a box on the bar and takes out the urn of Jack Dodd's ashes, 'for one last look-in'. But why? Jack doesn't know. Or does he? As the men make their way to the sea, stopping at pubs, at Canterbury Cathedral, at the places that hold special meaning to them, they wonder - and they remember. The war, the children, the affairs, the disappointments and the ordinary triumphs. Like an emotional mystery, Last Orders slowly reveals who Jack Dodds was, and by the journey's end, like his friends, we find ourselves missing him too.

Details

Year
2001
Type of project
Features
Running time
109 mins
Format
35mm Kodak
Director
Fred Schepisi
Producer
Elisabeth Robinson
Editor
Kate Williams
Screenwriter
Fred Schepisi, from the Graham Swift novel
Director of Photography
Brian Tufano
Composer
Paul Grabowsky
Principal cast
Michael Caine, Bob Hoskins, Helen Mirren, David Hemmings, Tom Courtenay, Ray Winstone

Genre

Literary Adaptation Drama

Categories

Fiction

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Scala Productions

15 Frith Street
London W1V 5TS
UK

T 020 7734 7060

Sales Company

Winchester Films

Contact: Billy Hurman, Andrew Brown
19 Heddon Street
London W1R 7LF
UK

T 020 7851 6500

mail@winchesterent.co.uk

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