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London, England | England
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6.7/10
IMDbBest Actress | 2016 | Maggie
Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture Comedy or Musical | 2016 | Maggie
Best Leading Actress | 2016 | Maggie
Best Breakthrough Performance in a Film | 2016 | Maggie
Best Actress | 2016 | Maggie
Best Original Score for a Comedy Film | 2016 | George
Budget 6,000,000 USD
Box Office Collection 41,387,687 USD
This movie was shot in the actual house on the street where the events took place, Gloucester Crescent in Camden Town. Some of the same people still lived there when the star prop arrived, decades later.
Producer and director Nicholas Hytner told The Guardian that, while filming in Camden Town, the crew arrived on-set one morning "to find the van had been broken into, and that two people had spent the weekend inside it having a good time with each other." This necessitated the removal of all of the van's contents, which had been dirtied up for artistic reasons, to be "deep-cleaned, and then made filthy again".
At the Hay Festival on May 27, 2015, screenwriter Alan Bennett said "The story told by this film took place forty and more years ago and Miss Shepherd is long since dead. She was difficult and eccentric, but above all, she was poor. And these days, particularly the poor, don't get much of a look in. Poverty is a moral failing today as it was under the Tudors. If the film has a point, it's about fairness and tolerance and however grudgingly helping the less fortunate, who are not well thought of these days. And now likely to be even less so."
During one montage showing the passage of several years, Miss Shepherd (Maggie Smith) decorates her van with Union Jacks and pictures of Queen Elizabeth II. This means it is 1977 (the year of the queen's silver jubilee).
The entire principal cast of Alan Bennett's play "The History Boys" (which was subsequently made into a movie in 2006 with the same actors) appeared in this movie. Frances de la Tour played Ursula Vaughan Williams, Bennett's neighbor, while Samuel Anderson, Samuel Barnett, Stephen Campbell Moore, Dominic Cooper, James Corden, Sacha Dhawan, Andrew Knott, Clive Merrison, Jamie Parker, and Russell Tovey all appeared in minor roles. The two movies have a total of twenty cast and crew members in common, with the exception of Richard Griffiths, who died in 2013. By coincidence, however, a young actor who was cast as one of the neighbors' children is also called Richard Griffiths. Producer and Director Nicholas Hytner said, "I e-mailed Richard's wife and she was convinced it was some kind of message."
"Rufus: Sorry, you can't park here. Miss Shepherd: No, I've had guidance. This is where it should go. Rufus: Guidance? Who from? Miss Shepherd: The Virgin Mary. I spoke to her yesterday. She was outside the post office. Rufus: What does she know about parking?"
"Alan Bennett: Mary, as you call her, is a bigoted, blinkered, cantankerous, devious, unforgiving, self-serving, rank, rude, car-mad cow, which is to say nothing of her flying feces and her ability to extrude from her withered buttocks turds of such force, that they land a yard from the back of the van and their presumed point of exit."