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The Last of the Blonde Bombshells

2000 · 84 min

A gentle, nostalgic comedy that blends wartime flashbacks with a present-day reunion, offering a warm and bittersweet look at friendship and second chances.

Genres
Comedy, Music, Tv movie
Tagline
It's never too late for an encore.
Overview
After Elizabeth's husband dies, she begins to play her tenor saxophone again, and remembers when she was 15 and a member of the Blonde Bombshells, an all-girl (with one exception) swing band. Accompanied by the exception and urged on by her grand-daughter, Elizabeth hunts up all the old members of the band and urges them to perform, and in doing so, learns more than she knew about the band, its members, the roses on the drum set, and herself--the last of the Blonde Bombshells.

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Genres
Comedy, Music, Tv movie
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How it feels

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Tone
  • warmstrength 3 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • upliftingstrength 2 of 3
  • whimsicalstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
easy-watch, 2 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • friendship
  • music
  • aging
  • grief
  • redemption
Places
  • big city
  • countryside
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • nonlinear
  • ensemble
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence none
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror0
Humour6
Realism7
Romance4
Tension2
Darkness3
Complexity4
Emotional weight6

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Where to watch in the UK

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Details

Genres
comedy, music, tv movie
Directed by
Gillies MacKinnon
Written by
Alan Plater
Starring
Judi Dench, Ian Holm, Joan Sims, June Whitfield, Olympia Dukakis, Billie Whitelaw, Leslie Caron, Cleo Laine
Music
John E. Keane
Cinematography
Richard Greatrex
Runtime
84 min
Country
United Kingdom, United States of America
Languages
English

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