Starring
Michael Caine, Bill Milner, Anne-Marie Duff, David Morrissey

In this charming story about growing up and growing old, Michael Caine gives one of his finest performances as Clarence, a retired magician who reluctantly enters a family-run retirement home.

Set in a seaside English town in the late 80s, the story charts the unlikely friendship that develops between Clarence, the proud, acerbic old performer and the afterlife-obsessed young Edward (Son of Rambow's Bill Milner), son of the home's overwhelmed owners.

Written by Peter Harness, who draws from his own experience growing up in a retirement home, the story brings a rich humour as well as a rigorous honesty to its portrait of different lives colliding under one roof.

The support cast includes Anne-Marie Duff, David Morrissey, Peter Vaughn, Rosemary Harris and Leslie Phillips.

Directed by
John Crowley