The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel isn't groundbreaking storytelling, but it's a sweet story about the senior set featuring a top-notch cast of veteran actors. Read critic reviews
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
2011, Comedy/Drama, 2h 4m
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Some British retirees (Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, Bill Nighy) decide to outsource their retirement to exotic -- and less expensive -- India. Lured by advertisements for the newly restored Marigold Hotel and imagining a life of leisure in lush surroundings, they arrive and find that the Marigold is actually a shell of its former self. Though their new home is not quite what they had imagined, the retirees find that life and love can begin again when they let go of their pasts.
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Rating: PG-13 (Sexual Content|Language)
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
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Original Language: English
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Director: John Madden
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Producer: Graham Broadbent, Peter Czernin
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Writer: Ol Parker
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Release Date (Theaters): wide
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Box Office (Gross USA): $46.4M
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Runtime:
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Distributor: Fox Searchlight
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Sound Mix: SDDS, Dolby Digital
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REALLY good acting from dev patel. somehow he out-performed the masterclass of judi dench and maggie smith. it helps that he got so many one liner's but that's thanks to the great writing by ol parker. each of the supporting cast also earned their pay.
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There is a lot of content - the movie is set in and 'exotic' retirement hotel in India, and deals with seven Brits - how they got there and what they need in their retirements. It also throws in some complications of the Indian family that runs the hotel. It is a well-written story.
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In "The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel," a group of English retirees including Muriel(Maggie Smith) who needs a new hip, Madge(Celia Imrie) who is trying to get out of babysitting for her grandchildren and Norman(Ronald Pickup) who has run out of women who will give him the time of day move to India for their golden years. Of them, Graham(Tom Wilkinson), a recently retired high court judge, is the only one who has been to India before and is therefore the only one not shocked at the state of their accommodations. But Sonny(Dev Patel) promises to make improvements as soon as possible. "The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel" is further proof that one can only get so far simply relying on a great cast(that also includes Bill Nighy and Judi Dench) at the top of their prowess and excellent location filming. That is mainly because of an episodic structure that feels more like a television series that Maggie Smith can star in once 'Downton Abbey' eventually runs its course. Admittedly, that would be one that is more unpredictable than average. In any case, the movie only touches on the subjects of the sidelining of the elderly and outsourcing, while inadvertantly showing how senior actors are trivialized; when in fact France is already outsourcing older actresses from England. At least in the "Red" movies, the senior characters get to save the world on occasion.
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This was sweet, with banner acting. Nothing too exciting.
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