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My Old Lady is a american film of genre Drama directed by Israël Horovitz released in USA on 9 september 2014 with Maggie Smith
My Old Lady (2014)
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Add to a movie listMy Old Lady is a British–French–American comedy-drama film written and directed by Israel Horovitz in his feature directorial debut. He had previously directed 3 Weeks After Paradise, a 51-minute testimonial from 2002 about his family's experiences following the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on New York's World Trade Center. The film stars Maggie Smith, Kevin Kline, Kristin Scott Thomas, and Dominique Pinon. It was screened in the Special Presentations section of the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival.
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Mathias, a down-and-out New Yorker, travels to Paris to liquidate a large, valuable apartment he has inherited from his estranged father. Once there, however, he discovers an old woman, Mathilde, living in the apartment with her daughter Chloé.Actors
Maggie Smith
(Mathilde Girard)
Kevin Kline
(Mathias Gold)
Kristin Scott Thomas
(Chloé Girard)
Dominique Pinon
(Monsieur Lefebvre)
Stéphane Freiss
(François Roy)
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