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...

Steve Buscemi ("Reservoir Dogs", "Fargo") makes his directorial debut, casting himself as the kind of scrounging, shitespouting sleazeball everyone avoids down the pub. A terminal loser, his future looks even worse when he inherits an ice-cream van and a teenage Lolita offers her assistance. Brilliant. find out more...