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Last Orders is a 1996 novel by British writer Graham Swift. The book won the 1996 Booker Prize. In 2001, it was adapted for the film Last Orders by Australian writer and director Fred Schepisi.
Last Orders Photos. See all photos. Movie Info. Fred Schepisi's thoughtful ensemble drama looks back on the life of Jack (Michael Caine), an amiable London butcher who leaves behind his devoted...
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Jan 16, 2021 · Twenty-five years after his Booker prize‑winning novel was published, Swift reflects on how his story of a dark day trip to Margate became a celebration of life. Graham Swift. Sat 16 Jan 2021 06 ...
Mar 1, 2002 · "Last Orders," Fred Schepisi's new film, based on the Booker Prize-winning novel by Graham Swift, knows all about those stages in the process of grieving and celebration. It is about four old friends in London who, at one level, simply drank together for years at a pub called the Coach & Horses, and at another level came as close as people can ...
1989, south London. Jack (Sir Michael Caine), an ebullient butcher, has died, and his last orders are to cast his ashes off the Margate Pier. His wife of fifty years, Amy (Dame Helen Mirren), stays home, with the excuse of a visit to their mentally-disabled daughter.
Jan 11, 2002 · Jack (Michael Caine) plays the deceased Peckham butcher whose posthumous instructions are that his old pub comrades, David Hemmings, Tom Courtenay and Bob Hoskins, together with his glowering car...
