Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
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Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
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Synopsis
An award-winning, all-star cast, led by Judi Dench, Bill Nighy, Tom Wilkinson, and Maggie Smith, lights up this “buoyant comedy laced with genuine emotion.” (Peter Travers, Rolling Stone) When seven cash-strapped seniors decide to “outsource” their retirement to a resort in far-off India, friendship and romance blossom in the most unexpected ways. Smart, life-affirming and genuinely charming, THE BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL is a “true classic that reminds us that it’s never too late to find love and a fresh beginning at any age.” (Rex Reed, The New York Observer)
Disk Information
**Theatrical Feature Blu-ray
**Behind the Story: Lights, Colors and Smiles
**Casting Legends
**Welcome to the “Real” Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
**Trekking to India: “Life is Never the Same”
**Tuk Tuk Travels
Cast & Crew
Reviews
Clothes may make the man, but they most CERTAINLY make the character," Bill Nighy says. "I spend quite a lot of time fretting over what a character would wear, how he'll look."
As for the Marigold Hotel, well, it's not the Delano. But overall it's a fine spot to spend a couple of hours.
The movie itself is a mawkish comedy-drama-romance, but the astounding cast makes it feel like a night on the West End.
The old pros elevate Hotel's otherwise pat screenplay into that sweet spot where predictability fails to negate pleasure.
The witty script, Eastern locale, and tony cast may summon up memories of the old Merchant-Ivory films.
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel is an ersatz experience, a commingling of forced uplift and exotica, but it's moving anyway.
There are brutal truths about the declining years in Best Exotic, from loneliness to financial woes that can't be solved by getting a new job, but they are amply padded with comedy and cheery messages about acceptance; this is no bitter pill to swallow.
