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The Last Bus

Synopsis

An old man crosses the country just using local buses...The heart-warming tale of a man whose wife has just passed away - who uses his free local bus pass to travel to the other end of the UK, to a place the pair originally moved from, using only local buses. A nostalgic trip, "taking her back" by carrying his wife’s ashes in a small suitcase, the man meets local people along the way, and by the end is a celebrity.

Details

Year
2020
Type of project
Features
Running time
95 min
Director
Gilles MacKinnon
Producer
Roy Boulter, Sol Papadopoulos
Co-Producer
Angela Murray
Executive Producer
Phil Hunt, Compton Ross, James Atherton, Jan Pace, Thierry Wase-Bailey, Henriette Wollmann, Jennifer Armitage, Norman Merry, Peter Hampden, Timothy Spall
Editor
Anne Sopel
Screenwriter
Joe Ainsworth
Director of Photography
George Geddes
Production Designer
Andy Harris
Sound
Phil Croal
Composer
Nick Lloyd Webber, Caitlin Agnew
Principal cast
Timothy Spall, Phyllis Logan

Genre

Drama

Categories

Fiction

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Hurricane Films

13 Hope Street
Liverpool
L1 9BQ

Sales Company

Celsius Entertainment

18 Spring Street
London
W2 3RA

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