Driving Lessons (2006)
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Product Details: Driving Lessons (2006)
- Edition:
- DVD .
- MPAA Rating:
- PG-13
- Release Date:
- 07/03/2007
- UPC:
- 043396170919
- Directed by:
- Jeremy Brock
- Featuring:
- Rupert Grint, Julie Walters, Laura Linney. See all cast
Synopsis: Driving Lessons (2006)
Synopis: We first meet Ben, a shy, bookish 17-year-old, as he begins a very unpromising summer vacation. While the other kids are out having fun, Ben spends these precious few weeks attending bible classes, having driving lessons with his overbearing and overly religious mother and helping out at a local old people's home. It's certainly not his ideal summer but, with a demanding, vigilant mother and a passive vicar for a father, Ben is anything but in control of his own destiny. Ben's absurdly straitlaced world is turned upside down when he gets a job assisting Evie, an eccentric retired actress. Vulgar, dignified and childish all at once, Evie enters Ben's life with a cataclysmic force. Suddenly caught between two worlds, Ben starts to gravitate towards his employer's unconventional and often bizarre ways, even though it continually gets him into trouble with his mother.Features: Driving Lessons (2006)
Features: DVD Features:Anamorphic Widescreen - 1.78
Audio:
Dolby Digital 5.1 - English
Subtitles - French - Optional
Subtitles - English - Closed Captioned
User Reviews: Driving Lessons
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What A Ride!
, July 21, 2007Reviewer: thelonelyspot - See all thelonelyspot's reviews
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Pros: Julie Walters and Rupert Grint are positively brilliant.
Cons: It had to end.
More often than not these days when a teenager is portrayed as a good caring person at the start of a film, they end up rebelling and becoming unbearably obnoxious by the end. Not the case with Driving Lessons. Rupert Grint plays the roll of a young man desperately trying to please his parents, please the girls and please his employer. His mother, played by Laura Linney can not be pleased, she is the very worst kind of hypocrite. His father is too involved in trying to maintain a charitably christian detachment to the wrong doers around him to have time for his son. Only his employer, played to perfection by Julie Walters, has the time and energy to see inside this confused and conflicted young man and find his true desire to create. My advise; if you have only ever seen Rupert Grint in the Harry Potter films (or Julie Walters for that matter) give Driving Lessons a go. It is brilliantly acted, expertly filmed and creatively directed. It really is quite a ride. ...