Description
All Ben wanted was a job. All Evie needed was a friend.
Oscar nominee Laura Linney (Kinsey) stars as Laura Marshall, an overzealous, evangelical Christian do-gooder who fills her him with down-and-out boarders, including a senile, cross-dressing murderous mute. Desperate to expand his horizons, Laura’s shy teenage son Ben (Rupert Grint, the Harry Potter films) lands a job tending to self-proclaimed “Dame” Evie Walton (Oscar nominee Julie Walters, Billy Elliott), an over-the-hill actress with the mouth of a drunken sailor and an insatiable lust for life. The battle for Ben’s soul begins as Evie shanghaies Ben away from his repressive roots and takes him on an adventure that transforms him from boy to man – almost over his raging mother’s dead body! A winning entry at the 2006 Moscow International Film Festival, Driving Lessons is an experience Stephen Farber of Movieline calls “a delightful coming-of-age story.”
