Last Orders (film)
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| Directed by | Fred Schepisi |
| Produced by |
Elisabeth Robinson Fred Schepisi |
| Written by | Fred Schepisi |
| Based on |
Last Orders by Graham Swift |
| Starring |
Michael Caine Tom Courtenay David Hemmings Bob Hoskins Helen Mirren Ray Winstone |
| Music by | Paul Grabowsky |
| Cinematography | Brian Tufano |
| Edited by | Kate Williams |
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Future Films
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| Distributed by | Sony Pictures Classics |
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Running time
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109 minutes |
| Country | UK/Germany |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $6,873,892 |
Last Orders is a 2001 British/German drama film written and directed by Fred Schepisi. The screenplay is based on the 1996 Booker Prize-winning novel Last Orders by Graham Swift.
The title refers to both a pub landlord's last call and the final wishes of a dying man, in this instance Jack Dodds (Michael Caine), an east London butcher who greatly influenced four men over the course of his flawed but decent lifetime. The quartet gathers to scatter Jack's ashes in Margate, where he had hoped to retire to a small seaside cottage with his wife Amy (Helen Mirren), a dream that never was fulfilled.
The four are professional horse race gambler Ray Johnson (Bob Hoskins), aka Lucky, who fought beside Jack during World War II and has been his best friend since; former boxer Lenny (David Hemmings), who is always ready to settle an argument with his fists; undertaker Vic (Tom Courtenay), who acts as a buffer of sorts; and Jack's son Vince (Ray Winstone), a dealer of used luxury cars, whose relationship with his father never quite recovered when, as a young boy, he learned his real family perished in a wartime bombing and Jack and Amy took in the orphaned infant and raised him as their own.
As the quartet journeys from London by car to honour Jack's request, with stops at Canterbury Cathedral, the Chatham Naval Memorial, the hop farm where Jack and Amy met, and a couple of pubs en route, they reminisce about their friend and recall their personal interactions with him over the years.
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