From acclaimed director Gus Van Sant comes a quirky, coming-of-age love story between a young man who has given up on life and a beautiful, charming young girl who possesses a deep-felt love of it. When these two outsiders chance to meet at a funeral, they find an unexpected common ground in their unique experiences of the world.
find out more...It's the off-season at the lonely Beauregard Hotel in Bournemoth, and only the long-term tenants are still in residence. Life is stirred up, however, when the beautiful Ann Shankland arrives to see her alcoholic ex-husband, John Malcolm, who is secretly engaged to Pat Cooper, the woman who runs the hotel. Meanwhile, snobbish Mrs Railton-Bell discovers that the kindly if rather doddering Major Pollock, played by David Niven, who won an Oscar for his performance, a retired officer who likes to find out more...