Quartet

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  • Opened January 11, 2013 (Limited)
  • 1 hr 37 min
  • PG-13 | Suggestive Humor and Brief Strong Language

  • Parents: Common Sense Media says OK for kids 13+. More on child suitability

  • Once-popular opera diva Jean Horton (Maggie Smith) creates a stir with her arrival at Beecham House, a home for retired performers. No one feels the uproar more than Reginald (Tom Courtenay), Jean's ex-husband, who still stings from her long-ago infidelity. Most of the other Beecham residents are delighted, and try to convince Jean to join them in a performance of "Rigoletto." Jean, however, knows that she is long past her prime and is reluctant to sully the memory of her once-lovely voice. Full synopsis

  • Cast: Maggie Smith, Tom Courtenay, Billy Connolly, Pauline Collins, Michael Gambon, Sheridan Smith
  • Director: Dustin Hoffman
  • Genres: Comedy, Showbiz Comedy

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Sweet story

by jjclemente

Love and romance know no age limits. Easy to like, clever dialogue, lush scenery and great casting. Nothing spectacular and nothing not to like. If you like the current collection of movies...

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Quartet is a Charmer

by donnahu

This is a nice feel-good flick, but very well acted and enjoyable. The music of course, is wonderful, and the chance to see a wonderful group of retired musicians actually playing and singing is...

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Quartet

by wvbrierre

Thoroughly delightful. Beecham House is just the type of retirement community we would all like to move into when we get to be that age. If only we were all talented musicians....

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St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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They have the perfect supporting cast, made up of a group of exceptional real-life musicians: retired members of orchestras and opera companies, and a pianist bristling with the suppressed impatience of the longtime accompanist. (To see who they are, stick around for the credits.) Read full review

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San Francisco Chronicle
| Mick LaSalle

Quartet is buoyed by the Scottish charm of Billy Connolly, as a lovable flirt and extrovert - he is a delight and also a locus of truth in every scene he's in. Read full review

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Rolling Stone
| Peter Travers

The actors are world-class charmers, and the magnificent Dame Maggie is the diva divine. Her wit still stings, as it does on "Downton Abbey." Read full review

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Philadelphia Inquirer
| Steven Rea

And that, in the end, is what Quartet is about: determined engagement, embracing music and theater and the arts, and embracing the friends and loved ones you have around you. Read full review

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Billy Connolly and Tom Courtenay in "Quartet."