
Jack Dodd (Sir Michael Caine) was a London butcher who enjoyed a pint with his mates for over fifty years. When he died, he died as he lived, with a smile on his face watching a horse race on which he had bet, with borrowed money. But before he died, he had a final request, "Last Orders", that his ashes be scattered in the sea at Margate. This movie follows his mates, Ray (Bob Hoskins), Lenny (David Hemmings), and Vic (Sir Tom Courtenay), and his son Vince (Ray Winstone) as t... (Full plot summary below)
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Jack Dodd (Sir Michael Caine) was a London butcher who enjoyed a pint with his mates for over fifty years. When he died, he died as he lived, with a smile on his face watching a horse race on which he had bet, with borrowed money. But before he died, he had a final request, "Last Orders", that his ashes be scattered in the sea at Margate. This movie follows his mates, Ray (Bob Hoskins), Lenny (David Hemmings), and Vic (Sir Tom Courtenay), and his son Vince (Ray Winstone) as they journey to the sea with the ashes. Along the way, the threads of their lives, their loves and their disappointments are woven together in their memories of Jack and his wife Amy (Dame Helen Mirren).
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| Matinee MagazineJason ClarkYou'd think a movie with Bob Hoskins, Michael Caine, Helen Mirren and Tom Courtenay couldn't be all bad, but you'd be wrong. |
| The New York TimesDana StevensLike finding that perfect stage of moderate drunkenness in which the senses are sharpened rather than dulled, and time passes with leisurely grace. |
| Salon.comCharles TaylorUnassuming masterpiece about life, love and the cruel joke of old age. |
| Chicago TribuneMichael WilmingtonA movie I loved on first sight and, even more important, love in remembrance. Taken all in all, there's only one last thing to say about it. Go. |
| RTÉ (Ireland)Tom Grealis'Last Orders' has class stamped all over it. |
| NewsdayJan StuartThe performers are so spot on, it is hard to conceive anyone else in their roles. |
| Jam! MoviesBruce KirklandIt is compelling to be exposed to a film as bluntly honest and yet as paradoxically ordinary as Last Orders. |
| Nitrate OnlineCynthia FuchsFor the most part, Last Orders avoids tear-jerking and grand emotional revelations. |
| Combustible CelluloidJeffrey M. AndersonThis lovely, sad movie made me feel as if I was in the car with these old friends, and it filled my heart. |
| New Times (L.A.)Luke Y. ThompsonThe film's biggest strength is the same characteristic that may cause people to underrate it: that the group of friends we watch onscreen feel not like England's greatest actors showing off, but rather a group of friends who have indeed known each other for years through life's little triumphs and large tragedies. |