the lady in the van

Director: nicholas hytner

Actor: maggie smith,alex jennings,jim broadbent,clare hammond

Data Published: Fri Nov 13 2015

Genres: Biography,Comedy,Drama

Key Words: nun,poverty,accident,1970s,alter ego

IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3722070/

WIKI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lady_in_the_Van

Description: The Lady in the Van is a movie starring Maggie Smith, Alex Jennings, and Jim Broadbent. A man forms an unexpected bond with a transient woman living in her van that's parked in his driveway.

Plot: The Lady in the Van tells the true story of Alan Bennett's strained friendship with Miss Mary Shepherd, an eccentric homeless woman whom Bennett befriended in the 1970s before allowing her temporarily to park her Bedford van in the driveway of his Camden home. She stayed there for 15 years. As the story develops Bennett learns that Miss Shepherd is really Margaret Fairchild, a former gifted pupil of the pianist Alfred Cortot. She had played Chopin in a promenade concert, tried to become a nun, was committed to an institution by her brother, escaped, had an accident when her van was hit by a motorcyclist for which she believed herself to blame, and thereafter lived in fear of arrest.