The Lady In The Van
Nicholas Hytner, 2015
Production companies: BBC Films,
TriStar Pictures
Distributors: TriStar Pictures (worldwide) Sony Pictures Classics
Rotten Tomatoes: 92% (125 reviews)
Lead actors: Maggie Smith, Alex Jennings
Intellectual Property
readers/viewers of Alan Bennett's work, is regarded as a refined and talented playwright, for nearly half a century now. The true story is not that well known to the wider audience.
USA Appeal
Maggie Smith is known to US audiences for Professor MacGonagall in Harry Potter and more recently Downton Abbey, one of the most popular British TV programme in America. She is not an A-List star like Brad Pitt or Scarlett Johannson, and not a B-List British one like Helen Mirren, Judi Dench or Colin Firth, but enjoys a popular recognition, with her character here showing similiar character traits of stubbornness like Lady Crawley in Downton Abbey.
The true story the narrative is based on will not be familiar with a wider British audience let alone with a North American one.
Release
The film was previewed at the Toronto International Film Festival.
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