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• Driving Lessons (Widescreen)

Format: DVD-Video

Release Date: 01-12-2000

Details: NEW DVD! Actors: Rupert Grint, Julie Walters, Nicholas Farrell, Laura Linney, Jordan Young: More down-to-earth than Auntie Mame, Driving Lessons imparts the same simple, but enduring message-be yourself. 17-year-old Ben (Harry Potter's Rupert Grint) lives with his vicar father, Robert (Nicholas Farrell), and pious mother, Laura (Laura Linney), in a tree-shaded London suburb. Soft-spoken Ben writes poems and looks forward to passing his driver's test. When his mother encourages him to get a job, he becomes an assistant to retired actress Evie Walton (Billy Elliot's Julie Walters). He finds her overbearing at first. Still, Evie is preferable to Laura, who may do volunteer work with her husband's parishioners, including bizarre boarder Mr. Fincham (Jim Norton), but also cheats on him with Reverend Peter (Oliver Milburn) and engages her resentful son in the subterfuge. Then Evie tricks Ben into driving her to Edinburgh for a poetry reading, where he learns to assert himself and she learns to put the dramatics on hold-at least for a few minutes. Ben also loses his virginity to a woman he just met, sending a secondary message some parents might not appreciate. Driving Lessons itself seems stranded between coming-of-age story and character study. Ironically, Farrell gives the most convincing performance as Ben's bird-loving father. Director: Jeremy Brock Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen Language: English (Dolby Digital 5.1) Subtitles: Spanish, French Subtitles for the Hearing Impaired: English Region: 1 encoding (US and Canada) PLEASE NOTE: Region 1 DVDs with Regional Coding Enhancement (RCE) for our international customers are also playable on "region-free" DVD players. Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1 Number of discs: 1 Rated: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) Studio: Sony DVD Release Date: 2007 Run Time: 98 minutes Learn more about "Driving Lessons" on IMDb. NEW DVD shipped in manufacturer's standard size case!

UPC: 043396170933

EAN: 0043396170933

Binding: DVD

Item Condition: UsedVeryGood