Roger Michell and Hanif Kureishi hand veteran actor Peter O'Toole the role of a late-career lifetime in this low-key drama about the persistence of sensuality. Once a devastatingly handsome heartthrob, aging English performer Maurice (O'Toole) is reduced to playing decrepit hospital patients in TV dramas, and not many at that. He and his old friend Ian (Leslie Phillips), a fusspot of the first order, spend most of their time sitting around inexpensive London cafes, trading war stories about the glory days and bemoaning the various indignities of old age in grandly theatrical terms — you can banish an old Shakespearian from the stage, but you can't make him stop ...
Released:
2006
Rated:
R
Length:
95 mins