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 enlarge | Director: Dan Ireland
Actor: Joan Plowright; Rupert Friend; Zoe Tapper; Anna Massey; Robert Lang (ii); Marcia Warren; Georgina Hale; Millicent Martin; Michael Culkin; Anna Carteret; Lorcan O'toole; Timothy Bateson; Clare Higgins; Emma Pike; Carl Proctor; Sophie Linfield; Olivia Caffrey
Studio: Westlake
Category: DVD
List Price: $19.98
Buy New: $7.99
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Rating:  58 reviews
Sales Rank: 2604
Format: Color, Dolby, Dvd-video, Ntsc, Widescreen
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: Unrated
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 108 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: WESDWLV3438D
UPC: 798622343826
EAN: 0798622343826
ASIN: B000GYI3PY
Theatrical Release Date: 2005
Release Date: December 12, 2006
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Showing reviews 16-20 of 58
 Subtitles/Captioning February 21, 2008
broiderqueen (Southern Oregon)
3 out of 7 found this review helpful
Thank you to the person who let us know this movie did not have subtitles/captioning for the hearing impaired. I was about ready to buy this movie - it sounds like something I would really like - but I am partially deaf and really need the captioning - especially on English movies (with the accents). Maybe one of these days it will come out with captioning.
 Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont.....well done! February 13, 2008
D. L. Dover (Florida)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I am a big fan of Joan Plowright and tho I hadn't seen this at the movies, I thought that it deserved my buying it instead of rental. I was definately not disappointed. Well done to everyone!
Wonderfully Touching Movie!! February 9, 2008
Donna Z (LINDENHURST, NY United States)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This movie recommended to my by a co-worker, and it is a beautiful movie, one I plan to purchase for my own DVD collection. Joan Plowright is a gorgeous woman, wonderful actor and a joy to watch at her craft. Love is a universal language, and age does not limit one's ability to find love.
I sobbed my eyes out, an absolute MUST SEE!!!
-------AN UNEXPECTED DELIGHT!----- January 12, 2008
Judith Miller (Bluemont, VA USA)
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
The premise is that of a widow who decides to move to the Claremont Hotel in London. She has chosen the location because it looked like an upscale place in her brochure. Truth is, the Claremont has seen better days! The place is seedy, her room very small and there is not a comfortable chair in sight! The residents are a mix of elderly and very lonely people, just like her.
Mrs. Palfrey (Joan Plowright) is a pleasant woman. Living in London seemed like a good way to connect with her only grandson, who works at a museum and in her mind she pictures him lunching with her on Sundays. After the move, she tries and tries to reach him by telephone, but weeks go by without his returning her phone calls. She settles in to thinking he will never visit her.
Good things are never completely the way that we picture them to be and Mrs. Palfrey does make a few friends with the residents. She also meets and is befriended by a young man who is helpful to her. When she eventually has her grandson to visit, it's more than wonderful. He's charming, handsome and the other residents are delighted to have the chance to get to know him too. Trouble is, there is much more to the story
I highly recommend this film. It's the kind of story that stays in your mind a long time.
Judith J. Miller
Wonderful story of friendship December 6, 2007
Reader (Chicago, IL USA)
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
Absolutely wonderful story about the unexpected frienship between older woman and a young man who is a writer. Due to unusual set of events, Mrs. Palfrey meets a young man who is housesitting apartment not too far away from the residentatial retirement hotel where she is staying indefinitely. Mrs. Palfrey is a widow who moves to London from Scotland in search of her newly found independence. In her own words, her entire life she has always been "someone's daughter, wife or a mother" and she is happy to be all by herself and to herself at this stage of her life. Her travelling companion is a book of poems and memories of her late husband Arthur that she treasures very much. But at her age and after years of dedication to her family, she sadly learns that her own daughter and grandson are somewhat neglecting and indifferent of her. While they acknowledge her existance, they seem careless about the ways they keep in touch with her. It is only so delighful when Mrs. Palfrey gets to meet a kind, young man Ludovic Meyer, whose own need for family closeness and human understanding and caring draws them together until they forge a wonderful friendship that changes them both. This is one of those unexpected gems that one comes across in the movie. Film is smart, with lots of humor and with the cast that delivers rare and delighful story. Wonderful film for all ages. Joan Plowright is fantastic in her role of Mrs. Palfrey. You will enjoy this movie.
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