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To save their posh retirement home, former opera stars plan a gala recital — until the biggest diva among them refuses to sing. Watch trailers & learn more.
- Dustin Hoffman
Mar 1, 2013 · Quartet: Directed by Dustin Hoffman. With Maggie Smith, Tom Courtenay, Billy Connolly, Pauline Collins. At a home for retired musicians, the annual concert to celebrate Composer Giuseppe Verdi's birthday is disrupted by the arrival of Jean (Dame Maggie Smith), an eternal diva and the former wife of one of the residents.
- (21K)
- Comedy, Drama, Music
- Dustin Hoffman
- 2013-03-01
After a chance encounter, four musicians decide to form a quartet and spend the winter sharing a cozy villa in Karuizawa — but a secret hangs over them. Watch trailers & learn more.
Box office. $59.5 million [1] Quartet is a 2012 British comedy-drama film based on the play Quartet by Ronald Harwood that ran in London 's West End from September 1999 until January 2000. [2] It was filmed in late 2011 at Hedsor House, Buckinghamshire. The film was actor Dustin Hoffman 's directorial debut .
Jan 23, 2013 · Along the way, much depends on whether Reggie and Jean will join two other residents (Pauline Collins and Billy Connolly) to perform the Act 3 quartet (“Bella figlia dell’amore”) from Verdi’s “Rigoletto.” Jean refuses; she fears that her voice is gone. The movie shows the others going to great lengths to coax her into the gala.
Jan 11, 2013 · Once-popular opera diva Jean Horton (Maggie Smith) creates a stir with her arrival at Beecham House, a home for retired performers. No one feels the uproar more than Reginald (Tom Courtenay), Jean ...
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- Comedy, Drama
- PG-13
Jan 18, 2023 · Quartet showcases the struggles and experiences that different sectors of life go through in the musical career. The four musicians- Maki, Sebuki, Iemori, and Beppu decide to live together in a house near the wooded resort area of Karuizawa during the winter reason, hoping to get comfortable around each other so they could play better.
