THE LAST BUS
synopsis
Heart-warming tale of an old man (Timothy Spall) whose wife (Phyllis Logan) has just passed away- and with his free local bus pass travels to the other end of the UK- to where they originally moved from- using only local buses, on a nostalgic trip but also carrying his wife’s ashes in a small suitcase, ‘taking her back’ and in doing so he meets local people, and by the end of his trip he’s a celebrity.
international title: | The Last Bus |
original title: | The Last Bus |
country: | United Kingdom |
sales agent: | Celsius Entertainment Ltd. |
year: | 2021 |
genre: | fiction |
directed by: | Gillies MacKinnon |
film run: | 86' |
release date: | ES 18/06/2021, UK 27/08/2021 |
screenplay: | Joe Ainsworth |
cast: | Timothy Spall, Phyllis Logan, Grace Calder, Brian Pettifer, Colin McCredie, Celyn Jones, Garry Sweeney, Kevin Mains, Iain Robertson, Marianne McIvor |
cinematography by: | George Geddes |
film editing: | Anne Sopel |
art director: | Andy Harris |
costumes designer: | Gill Horn |
music: | Nick Lloyd Webber |
producer: | Roy Boulter, Sol Papadopoulos |
executive producer: | Jennifer Armitage, James Atherton, Peter Hampden, Phil Hunt, Norman Merry, Jan Pace, Compton Ross, Thierry Wase-Bailey, Henriette Wollmann |
associate producer: | Tom Harberd, Elliot Ross, Fenella Ross |
line producer: | Steve Newton, Patricia Rybarczyk |
production: | Hurricane Films Ltd |
distributor: | DeAPlaneta, Parkland Entertainment |