Julie Waters' fine performance helps center this sentimental British drama about a young Londoner who escapes his sanctimonious, hypocritical mother's influence through the friendship of an aging actress. Seventeen-year-old Ben Marshall (HARRY POTTER's Rupert Grint) is desperate to pass his road test. But rather than let him take lessons from a professional, his officious mother, Laura (Laura Linney), the wife of a hapless Anglican priest (Nicholas Farrell), insists on teaching Ben herself, primarily because these driving lessons afford her the opportunity to canoodle with handsome young deacon Peter (Oliver Milburn). Despite her adultery, Laura professes to be a per...
Released:
2006
Rated:
PG-13
Length:
97 mins