Driving Lessons

17 years of living in an absurdly Conservative and traditional household with his highly strung and overbearing mother (Laura Linley) and quiet, mild mannered Vicar father has taken its toll on young Ben (Rupert Grint). While the other kids are out having fun Ben spends his precious few weeks attending Bible classes, having driving lessons with his mother and helping out a local old people’s home. However Ben’s world is turned upside down when he’s employed by an eccentric retired actress Evie (Julie Walters). Vulgar, dignified and childish all at once she certainly is not the kind of person Ben expected to find when searching through the job listings in the stuffy Parish magazine. Evie enters Ben’s life in their cataclysmic force whisking him away on a series of adventures from Care camping to performing Shakespeare in the garden to attending the Edinburgh Festival when he finally meet a girl much Nero his own age babies unconventional and off and downright bizarre behaviour change challenges Ben’s beliefs and forces him to confront the very idea of who he wants to be then when it seems that his newfound freedom is about to be taken away Ben has to send me choose should he continue to conform or breaking out and leave his life as his own man driving lessons is a heartfelt touching imposts the Tivoli hilarious look at the affect one delightfully eccentric older woman can have on the young man with a lot to learn Julie Walters is enough power in the role of a fading star with an acid tongue Rupert Green relatively opportunity to play alongside her in this warm tale of friendship old-age and coming-of-age

2006

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Australia

2001-01-01

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