The Great Escaper
HistoryDramaWar
6.6/10
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|96 min
Release Date: 2023-10-06
Overview - In the summer of 2014, a World War II veteran sneaks out of his care home to attend the 70th anniversary commemoration of the D-Day landings in Normandy.
Production Companies
Ecosse FilmsFilmgate FilmsIngenious MediaFilm i VästPathéBBC Film
User Reviews
CinemaSerf
7/10
This is one of those contemporary, really quite touching, dramas that we won't be able to make for too much longer. It centres around an elderly couple, who have been together for seventy years, and live a semi-independent life in a care home. During a routine chat with their nurses, "Rene" (Glenda Jackson) discovers that her husband "Bernie" (Sir Michael Caine) had wanted to go to the impending c...
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