Ladies in Lavender

2004
PG-13
1h 44m

IMDb RATING

7.0/10

13K

YOUR RATING

Judi Dench, Natascha McElhone, Maggie Smith, and Daniel Brühl in Ladies in Lavender (2004)

Home Video Trailer from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

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Two sisters befriend a mysterious foreigner who washes up on the beach of their 1930s Cornish seaside village.Two sisters befriend a mysterious foreigner who washes up on the beach of their 1930s Cornish seaside village.Two sisters befriend a mysterious foreigner who washes up on the beach of their 1930s Cornish seaside village.

Director
- Charles Dance
Writers
- William J. Locke
- Charles Dance
Stars

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IMDb RATING

7.0/10

13K

YOUR RATING

Director
- Charles Dance
Writers
- William J. Locke
- Charles Dance
Stars

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 3 nominations

Trivia
Maggie Smith and Judi Dench were performing together in a West End play when they received the scripts. They consulted each other, and decided to do the project.

Goofs
Mains electricity, gas lighting and indoor flush toilets were unlikely to be present in remote village houses in 1936 Cornwall.

Quotes
Andrea Marowski: [Andrea is about to leave, turns to Ursula] I walk.
Ursula Widdington: Oh, good. Um... we have chicken for supper.
[Andrea looks at her, not understanding]
Ursula Widdington: Um, um...
[she picks up Janet's German-English dictionary, but stops before opening it]
Ursula Widdington: Oh! Uh, Hundchen zum Abendessen.
[subtitles: Puppydog for supper]
Andrea Marowski: [he laughs] Hundchen?
Ursula Widdington: Hundchen, ja.
Andrea Marowski: Das ist gut. Wiedersehen.
[subtitles: That's good. Goodbye]
Ursula Widdington: I'll see you later.

Crazy credits
Special thanks to the people of Helston, Cornwall and the people of Cadgwith, Cornwall.

Connections
Featured in Siskel & Ebert: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy/It's All Gone Pete Tong/Kingdom of Heaven/xXx: State of the Union/Ladies in Lavender (2005)

Soundtracks
Since Father Did a Broadcast on the BBC
Written by Robert Rutherford (as Rutherford) and Elliot
Performed by Arthur Askey with The BBC Dance Orchestra

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Review

Featured review

9/10

I love this movie

For some reason, I dvr'd this movie the other day, because I love the Dames Maggie Smith and Judi Dench. I didn't watch it until last night. I started at 1am and watched the whole thing, even though I was exhausted. I am an old romantic.

At the beginning, my friend and I just couldn't figure out what was wrong with Ursula and we figured out she was falling in love with the boy. Wow! It was so obvious after a while, and I reminisced about the time I fell in love with someone so much younger than me. It was a treat to see Maggie Smith, trying to protect and comfort her sister in her obvious agony of the just impossible love she was feeling for the boy. How sad.

The end was a poignant and subtle end to a fabulous SHORT story. I actually thought they were in the islands off the southern coast.. I believe they are Jersey.. (like "The Others", and didn't realize it was pre-WWII, hence the hint at all of the Britons suspicions of Germans at the time.

What a fabulous story. I absolutely loved it!.