Last Orders

Australian filmmaker known for such classics as The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith and Six Degrees of Separation, Fred Schepisi tells this story about a group of lifelong chums coming to terms with their friend's death, based on a prize-winning novel by Graham Swift. When Jack Dodd (Michael Caine) ...more

Though the journey undertaken in Last Orders by major British actors in their late middle age is worth the ride, you might at various points wonder -- as, indeed, some of the characters do onscreen -- if all the stops along the way are strictly necessary. The day-long quest by the recently departed Jack's buddies and son to fulfill his final request is more drawn out than it needs to be, and the jolting back-and-forth flashbacks to previous decades means it takes a while for the viewer to get ...more