Project Detail

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 film: Features
Running time: 124 mins
Format: 35mm
Director: John Madden
Producer: Graham Broadbent, Peter Czernin
Executive Producer: Jonathan King
Editor: Chris Gill
Screenwriter: Ol Parker
Director of Photography: Ben Davis
Production Designer: Alan MacDonald
Music: Thomas Newman
Principal cast: Maggie Smith, Bill Nighy, Tom Wilkinson, Judi Dench, Dev Patel

Genre

Literary Adaption Comedy Drama

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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