LAST ORDERS

Year: 2001
USA: Sony Pictures Classics
UK: Metrodome Distribution
Cast: Michael Caine, Tom Courtenay, David Hemmings, Bob Hoskins, Helen Mirren, Ray Winstone, J J Feild, Cameron Fitch, Nolan Hemmings, Anatol Yusef, Kelly Reilly, Stephen McCole, Georges Innes, Laura Morelli, Sally Hurst, Denise Black, Sue James, Meg Wynn Owen, Kitty Leigh, Alex Reid, Tracey Murphy, Claire Harman, John Baker, Emma Deigman, Tom Baker, Laura Deigman, Simon Oats, Patricia Valentine, Lois Winstone, Brian Osborne, Joanna Bacon, Teresa Lloyd, Alan Taylor, Charlotte Atkinson, Dani Foreman, Bea Sewell, Aislinn Sands
Director: Fred Schepisi
Country: UK
USA & UK: 109 mins
USA Rated: R for sexuality and some language
UK Certificate: 15 contains strong language and sex
USA Release Date: 15 February 2002 (Limited Release - Los Angeles and New York)
USA Release Date: 7 December 2001 (Limited Release - Los Angeles and New York)
UK Release Date: 11 January 2002


Synopsis

LAST ORDERS is a road trip with one urn of ashes and four old friends.

Jack Dodds (Michael Caine) was a regular guy, so why the strange 'last order' to have his ashes thrown off the pier at Margate? And why did his wife Amy (Helen Mirren) refuse to do it?

As their Mercedes speeds towards the sea, an emotional mystery unfolds, where the men try to understand Jack's death by reliving their life with him - the war, the children, the affairs, the good times and the bad.

The journey becomes a pub crawl full of piss-ups and punch-ups and the men discover that through it all, it's your friends who break your heart....and your friends who mend it.

Written and directed by Fred Schepisi (SIX DEGREES OF SEPARATION, ROXANNE, A CRY IN THE DARK) and shot over a nine week schedule during the autumn/winter of 2000 on location in London and the south of England and at Pinewood Studios, LAST ORDERS is based on Graham Swift's Booker Prize-winning novel.

DVD EXTRAS:

16x9 Anamorphic widescreen
Dolby Digital 5.1 & 2.0
Single layer
single sided DVD-9
Colour PAL
English

Special Features:
Theatrical trailer
Trailer evolution video
Behind the scenes footage
Director and Main Cast Interviews
Graham Swift biography
Director and Main Cast biographies
Production Notes
Image gallery