
Dead Poets Society(1989)
At an elite, old-fashioned boarding school in New England, a passionate English teacher inspires his students to rebel against convention and seize the potential of every day, courting the disdain of the stern headmaster.


“One Chance Meeting, Two Changed Lives”
All but abandoned by her family in a London retirement hotel, an elderly woman strikes up a curious friendship with a young writer.

Joan Plowright
Mrs. Palfrey

Rupert Friend
Ludovic Meyer

Zoë Tapper
Gwendolyn

Anna Massey
Mrs. Arbuthnot

Marcia Warren
Mrs. Post

Georgina Hale
Mrs. Burton

Robert Lang
Mr. Osborne

Millicent Martin
Mrs. De Salis

Michael Culkin
Willie De Salis
Anna Carteret
Elizabeth
Mrs Palfrey at The Claremont is a drama, comedy film released in 2005 exploring themes of friendship, poetry, memory, old age. Directed by Dan Ireland, it stars Joan Plowright, Rupert Friend, Zoë Tapper. All but abandoned by her family in a London retirement hotel, an elderly woman strikes up a curious friendship with a young writer.
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