Directed by: Dustin Hoffman
Cast: Maggie Smith, Tom Courtenay, Billy Connelly, Pauline Collins
Running time: 98 minutes
Beecham House is a retirement home
for retired professional musicians that is risking closure because of financial
issues. There is hope that the yearly gala concert will bring in enough money
to keep the place going. Among the residents are three retired opera singers
who often performed together in a quartet back in the day. When the fourth
member of the quartet arrives to live at Beecham, it revives old wounds and
create chaos.
This film was Dustin Hoffman’s first venture into movie directing. He clearly had love for the material, and it showed in the end result. He did a good job bringing the pieces together. Great acting compensated greatly for a story that might have been a little overly sweet and predictable around the edges. In the end, it was still an entertaining piece of cinema, based on the play of the same name by Ronald Harwood.
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