You may have forgotten this little item from September, but Dustin Hoffman made a late-career shift of sorts, deciding to finally helm a movie. His directorial debut — discounting some uncredited work on the 1978 feature Straight Time — is titled Quartet, and Deadline reports that The Weinstein Company have picked it up for somewhere in the territory of $3 million. Not a bad choice when the film sounds like a fun time and has a good cast, too.
Based on a stage play (and written) by Ronald Harwood (The Pianist), Quartet stars Maggie Smith, Michael Gambon, Billy Connolly, Pauline Collins, and Tom Courtenay. You can read a plot synopsis below:
“Courtenay, Connolly and Collins play three ex-opera stars who live together in Beecham House, a home for retired opera singers. Every year they throw a party to celebrate the birthday of Giuseppe Verdi. This year, however, their plans are thrown into flux by...
Based on a stage play (and written) by Ronald Harwood (The Pianist), Quartet stars Maggie Smith, Michael Gambon, Billy Connolly, Pauline Collins, and Tom Courtenay. You can read a plot synopsis below:
“Courtenay, Connolly and Collins play three ex-opera stars who live together in Beecham House, a home for retired opera singers. Every year they throw a party to celebrate the birthday of Giuseppe Verdi. This year, however, their plans are thrown into flux by...
- 5/3/2012
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
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