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Box Office: $2,197,234
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CONSENSUS
With a cast that includes some of the best acting talent in Britain, Last Orders is a rewarding character-driven ensemble piece.
CAST & CREW
Michael Caine, Tom Courtenay, David Hemmings
Directed by Fred Schepisi
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SYNOPSIS
Fred Schepisi's adaptation of Graham Swift's prize-winning novel is a quietly graceful portrait of four working-class Brits, bound by years of friendship, that unites some of England's finest actors in a powerful and deeply moving ensemble production. more...
MPAA RATING
R, sexuality and some language
RUNTIME
1 hour, 50 minutes
RELEASE DATES
Theatrical: Feb 15, 2002
Video: Aug 13, 2002
RELEASE COMPANY
Sony Pictures Classics
GENRE
Dramas
OFFICIAL SITE
• The Official Last Orders Site
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 "Manages to show life in all of its banality when the intention is quite the opposite."
-- George Wu, CULTUREVULTURE.NET
 "If the story lacks bite, the performances are never less than affectionate."
-- The Wolf, IOFILM.CO.UK
"The sentimental script has problems, but the actors pick up the slack."
-- Dave White, IFILM
"All the small moments and flashbacks don't add up to much more than trite observations on the human condition."
-- Glenn Whipp, LOS ANGELES DAILY NEWS
"It should be interesting, it should be poignant, it turns out to be affected and boring."
-- Ian Waldron-Mantgani, UK CRITIC
"Last Orders nurtures the multi-layers of its characters, allowing us to remember that life's ultimately a gamble and last orders are to be embraced. It's affecting, amusing, sad and reflective."
-- Urban Cinefile Critics, URBAN CINEFILE
"If no one singles out any of these performances as award-worthy, it's only because we would expect nothing less from this bunch."
-- Luke Y. Thompson, NEW TIMES
"A small film about big issues, a great humanist drama with humor that doesn’t over-reach, and an ensemble film where everybody shines"
-- Collin Souter, EFILMCRITIC.COM
"A film of epic scale with an intimate feeling, a saga of the ups and downs of friendships."
-- William A. Sievert, ORLANDO WEEKLY
"The film brilliantly shines on all the characters, as the direction is intelligently accomplished."
-- Dennis Schwartz, OZUS' WORLD MOVIE REVIEWS
"Sweet and memorable film."
-- Michael Phillips, CITYSEARCH
"The splendid ensemble cast inhabits these unglamorous roles with quiet gusto."
-- Moira MacDonald, SEATTLE TIMES
"It is compelling to be exposed to a film as bluntly honest and yet as paradoxically ordinary as Last Orders."
-- Bruce Kirkland, JAM! MOVIES
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"Old people will love this movie, and I mean that in the nicest possible way: Last Orders will touch the heart of anyone old enough to have earned a 50-year friendship."
-- Scott Weinberg, DAILY-REVIEWS
"There's no denying how nice it is to see veteran actors Bob Hoskins, Michael Caine and Helen Mirren interacting with each other on screen."
-- Jeff Vice, DESERET NEWS, SALT LAKE CITY
"Bleakly funny, its characters all the more touching for refusing to pity or memorialize themselves."
-- Gary Thompson, PHILADELPHIA DAILY NEWS
"The combination of acting brilliance and filmmaking skill makes the
picture...a deeply satisfying experience."
-- Frank Swietek, ONE GUY'S OPINION
"Brian Tufano's handsome widescreen photography and Paul Grabowsky's excellent music turn this fairly parochial melodrama into something really rather special."
-- Neil Smith, BBCI FILMS
"Fred Schepisi's film is paced at a speed that is slow to those of us in middle age and deathly slow to any teen. With a cast of A-list Brit actors, it is worth searching out."
-- Chuck Schwartz, CRANKY CRITIC®
"We come to love each and everyone of them so much that the arrival of the ending credits is the film's only disappointment."
-- Steve Rhodes, STEVE RHODES' INTERNET REVIEWS
"Fred Schepisi's tale of four Englishmen facing the prospect of their own mortality views youthful affluence not as a lost ideal but a starting point."
-- Mark Palermo, COAST (HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA)
"A tender, witty, captivating film about friendship, love, memory, trust and loyalty."
-- Shawn Levy, OREGONIAN
"Just the sort of lazy tearjerker that gives movies about ordinary folk a bad name."
-- Jeremiah Kipp, MATINEE MAGAZINE
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"A movie I loved on first sight and, even more important, love in remembrance."
-- Michael Wilmington, CHICAGO TRIBUNE
"A must for fans of British cinema, if only because so many titans of the industry are along for the ride."
-- Chris Vognar, DALLAS MORNING NEWS
"A funny and touching film that is gorgeously acted by a British cast to rival Gosford Park's."
-- Peter Travers, ROLLING STONE
"...is funny in the way that makes you ache with sadness (the way Chekhov is funny), profound without ever being self-important, warm without ever succumbing to sentimentality."
-- Charles Taylor, SALON.COM
"The performers are so spot on, it is hard to conceive anyone else in their roles."
-- Jan Stuart, NEWSDAY
"This is human comedy at its most amusing, interesting and confirming."
-- Susan Stark, DETROIT NEWS
"Schepisi, aided by a cast that seems to include every top-notch British actor who did not appear in Gosford Park (as well as one, Ms. Mirren, who did), has succeeded beyond all expectation."
-- A.O. Scott, NEW YORK TIMES
"The storytelling may be ordinary, but the cast is one of those all-star reunions that fans of Gosford Park have come to assume is just another day of Brit cinema."
-- Lisa Schwarzbaum, ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY
"Though the book runs only about 300 pages, it is so densely packed ... that even an ambitious adaptation and elaborate production like Mr. Schepisi's seems skimpy and unclear."
-- Andrew Sarris, NEW YORK OBSERVER
"Great acting throughout..."
-- Richard Roeper, EBERT & ROEPER
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"A satisfying charmer that tells a compelling story, and then tops that by offering up a saucy sextet of Britain's best veteran actors."
-- Laura Kelly, SOUTH FLORIDA SUN-SENTINEL
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