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Dustin Hoffman directs this captivating, well-acted, inspirational, humorous film, which is adapted from Ronald Harwood's 1999 play and stars real-life retired musicians and singers, including Dame Gwyneth Jones and John Rawnsley, in which tensions and blood pressures rise when a famous, aging British opera singer (Maggie Smith) arrives at an idyllic retirement home for opera singers and musicians in England and is pressured by a flamboyant resident (Michael Gambon), her former hurt husband (Tom Courtenay), and two tenacious singers (Bill Connolly and Pauline Collins) to perform at the October annual concert gala to help raise funds to keep the residence financially afloat.
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