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The Lady in the Van (2015)

PG-1310/30/2015Comedy, Drama1h 44m

A mostly true story

Overview

The true story of the relationship between Alan Bennett and the singular Miss Shepherd, a woman of uncertain origins who ‘temporarily’ parked her van in Bennett’s London driveway and proceeded to live there for 15 years.

Top Billed Cast

  1. Cast 1

    Maggie Smith

    Miss Shepherd

  2. Cast 1

    Alex Jennings

    Alan Bennett

  3. Cast 1

    Frances de la Tour

    Ursula Vaughan Williams

  4. Cast 1

    Gwen Taylor

    Mam

  5. Cast 1

    Dominic Cooper

    Theatre Actor

  6. Cast 1

    James Corden

    Street Trader

  7. Cast 1

    Roger Allam

    Rufus

  8. Cast 1

    Samuel Anderson

    Jehovah's Witness

  9. Cast 1

    Dermot Crowley

    Priest

As the writer himself acknowledges at the end, he's augmented this a little but most of it is already the stuff you couldn't make up! He buys a new home in a well-to-do street in London's Camden only to find the area "blighted" by a curmudgeonly and smelly old woman who lives out of her rusting old van. When it comes time for her to move on, she ends up parked outside his new home and prevails upon him to use his facilities. That's just the start of a friendship that develops over fifteen years in which Bennett (Alex Jennings) discovers that this is an interesting and talented lady. It's quite...

Status Released

Original LanguageEnglish 

Budget$6,000,000.00

Revenue $41,387,687.00

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