The Last of the Haussmans
National Theatre
Release date: 11 October 2012
Running time: 180 mins
Director: Howard Davies
Starring: Rory Kinnear, Julie Walters, Isabella Laughland, Helen McCrory, Matthew Marsh
Julie Walters returns to the National Theatre for the first time in more than a decade in this funny, touching and savage portrait of a family that's losing its grip.
High society drop-out Judy (Julie Walters) is the aging hippy matriarch of the Haussman clan. The spirit of the 1960s still infuses her anarchic lifestyle in a dilapidated Art Deco house on the Devon coast. Recovering from an operation, Judy welcomes her wayward adult children Nick (Rory Kinnear) and Libby (Helen McCrory). Also joining the party are her granddaughter Summer, local doctor Peter, and Daniel - a troubled local teen. Lubricated by alcohol in the sweltering heat over the next few months, infatuations, festering resentments and disappointments bubble to the surface. Stephen Beresford's new play is a blackly comic portrait of the consequences of being raised by the revolutionary 'free love' generation - with a peach of a role for much-loved Julie Walters.
Screenwriter: William Shakespeare
You should see it because: Julie Walters is reunited with director Howard Davies for the first time since her Olivier Award-winning performance in 'All My Sons'.
See it if you liked: All My Sons, Collaborators, One Man, Two Guvnors
[verbatim from the Cineworld website]
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