Project Detail

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 Adaption Drama

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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www.winchesterfilms.com

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