Veteran actresses Maggie Smith and Judy Dench lend extraordinary luster to actor-turned-writer-director Charles Dance's leisurely adaptation of a short story by little-read English author William J. Locke. The year is 1936, and aging sisters Ursula (Dench) and Janet (Smith) share a room in the same Cornish seaside cottage where they were born, and maintain a certain threadbare gentility that sets them slightly apart from their neighbors. Janet was married but widowed young — her husband died in WWI — and Ursula never married at all. Both tended their father until he died, and now measure their days in a predictable routine of meals prepared by the plainspoken Dorcas ...
Released:
2004
Rated:
PG-13
Length:
104 mins