The IMDb editors have selected the films they're most excited to see in 2021. Have you added these movies to your Watchlist?
Here are some well-known faces from Sundance over the years, as they brought their early movies to the festival.
Related lists from IMDb users
Title: Quartet (2012)
Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? Use the HTML below.
| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Maggie Smith | ... | Jean Horton | |
| Tom Courtenay | ... | Reggie Paget | |
| Billy Connolly | ... | Wilf Bond | |
| Pauline Collins | ... | Cissy Robson | |
| Michael Gambon | ... | Cedric Livingstone | |
| Sheridan Smith | ... | Dr. Lucy Cogan | |
| Andrew Sachs | ... | Bobby Swanson | |
 |
Gwyneth Jones | ... | Anne Langley (as Dame Gwyneth Jones) |
| Trevor Peacock | ... | George | |
| David Ryall | ... | Harry | |
| Michael Byrne | ... | Frank White | |
|
|
Ronnie Fox | ... | Nobby |
|
|
Patricia Loveland | ... | Letitia Davis |
| Eline Powell | ... | Angelique | |
| Luke Newberry | ... | Simon | |
Cissy (Pauline Collins), Reggie (Sir Tom Courtenay), and Wilf (Sir Billy Connolly) are in a home for retired musicians. Every year, on October 10, there is a concert to celebrate Composer Giuseppe Verdi's birthday and they take part. Jean (Dame Maggie Smith), who used to be married to Reggie, arrives at the home and disrupts their equilibrium. She still acts like a diva, but she refuses to sing. Still, the show must go on, and it does. Written by BrianoftheNorth
As a 16 year old, it's safe to say that this obviously is not a film which is aimed at me at all, being based in a retirement home for old musicians where cracking jokes about opera is, you know, hilarious. In fact, the screening I was in was filled with those with white hair. It's not often that I feel out of place at a cinema, but I on this occasion I did.
Quartet, as you probably know, features a stellar cast of older actors; Maggie Smith and Tom Courtenay playing the reunited divorcées with a history; Billy Connolly as a pottering and senile old tenor, cracking double-entendres at every opportunity; and Pauline Collins, who in my opinion steals the show, as the ditzy ex-opera singer. What follows is an unashamedly predictable, but nevertheless solidly crafted and amusing drama that wouldn't look out of place on a Sunday afternoon TV slot. Minus the f-words, of course. Yes ,you can see its development from a mile off, and it rarely addresses the more serious and harrowing aspects of old-age as Haneke's 'Amour' did, but it's good natured, well scripted and amusing fun.
It's all through the typical rose-tinted, Downton-esque portrayal of Britain that we're all accustomed to, but with a cast like that and a gentle, sweet story, it's hard not to be eventually won over by its charm. I had a good time.