Want a movie to make you laugh and smile?
Are you old enough to remember Kennedy?
If so, check in for a couple hours at your local theater to The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel. Old age is being outsourced to India…Ensemble cast British big names…Judi Dench, and Maggie Smith among them (where’s Helen Mirren, I want to know??) find themselves in reduced circumstances in the Best Exotic Marigold Hotel.
Director John Madden of Shakespeare in Love—how many times did I see that one?—plays lush with the multiple story lines. In other hands, or with other actors, or other scenery, the disappointments and missed opportunities of life would be clichéd. Here the clichés live and breathe, walk around or ride in Tuk Tuks, nicely seasoned with curry and punctuated with bright tika dots on the forehead.
Dev Patel, of Slumdog Millionaire, is the over young, over enthusiastic proprietor of the Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, where the bedrooms don’t have doors, but do have pigeons, the plumbing works too much and the phones too little. “Everything will be OK in the End,” he is fond of saying. “And if it’s not okay, it is not the end.”
They need to make more movies like this one..
Love the saying, “Everything will be alright in the end. And if it’s not okay, it’s not the end.” Remember the character Philip Henslowe played by Geoffery Rush? When asked, how is everything going to turn out alright, claimed, “I don’t know; it’s a mystery.” Wonderful movies, wonderful life, wonderful friends. XX OO