MRS. PALFREY AT THE CLAREMONT

Dan Ireland's latest film is based on the best selling novel by the late, celebrated English author, Elizabeth Taylor. The story centers around an elegant elderly lady (Mrs. Palfrey) who, after being recently widowed, moves from Scotland to London to be near to her 26-year-old grandson, Desmond. But Desmond fails to return any of her several phone calls or visit her at the resident hotel where she is staying (The Claremont). Fate, however, brings her together with a young writer, Ludovic Meyer, after she has an accident outside his basement flat. Eventually, Ludo ends up helping Mrs. Palfrey by playing a charade ñ pretending to be her grandson so that the other off-beat elderly residents of the hotel believe that she hasn't been lying about having a grandson. The two newly found friends discover they have a lot more in common with each other then they do with people their own age.