The Best Exotic
Marigold Hotel
DVD
With an all star
British cast including Dame Judi Dench (007 Movies, Shakespeare in Love), Dame
Maggie Smith (Downton Abbey), Penelope Wilton (Downton Abbey, Pride and Prejudice)
and Bill Nighy (Love Actually, Pirates of the Caribbean) The Best Exotic
Marigold Hotel follows seven characters who all visit India and stay in `The
Best Exotic Marigold Hotel` owned by Dev Patel`s (Slumdog Millionare) character
Sonny who took over the run down hotel from his father.
At the start of the
film the audience get an insight into the lives of Evelyn (Dame Judi Dench) who
we find out lost her husband to a heart attack, Graham (Tom Wilkinson) a judge who
the audience later finds out is gay, Doug and Jean (Billy Nighy and Penelope
Wilton) a married couple who invested in their daughters business, Muriel (Dame
Maggie Smith) who travels to India to have an operation on her hip, Norman
(Ronald Pickup)who starts of speed dating and Madge(Celia Imrie)who seeks to
find another husband. These seven witty characters all meet at the airport not
knowing that they are all going to India
The film is told
through Evelyn and the blog she writes of her time in India
Throughout the film
each character discovers themselves and realises that you never know what might
happen, everything will be alright in the end and to look to the future and
forget about the past.
All in all The Best
Exotic Marigold Hotel is a fun filled, quirky film featuring its fair share of
funny remarks from none other than Muriel’s character, Dame Maggie Smith.
A colourful film for
all the family!
Rating: 12A
Cast: Dame Maggie Smith, Dame Judi Dench, Bill Nighy, Penelope Wilton
Directed by: John Madden
Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
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