World Premier of Maggie Smith starrer ‘The Lady in the Van’ in Toronto Film Festival

It is now known that Oscar-winning actress Maggie Smith-starrer “The Lady in the Van” would be having an award-qualifying release this December. It is expected to have its world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival (September 10-20).
This has been reported by indianexpress.com dated 26 August 2015.

The director of the movie is Nicholas Hytner and it is an adaptation of Alan Bennett’s West End hit.
Maggie Smith is reprising her role from the stage version and will portray the role of Miss Mary Shepherd, an eccentric woman of uncertain origins, who “temporarily” parked her broken-down van in Bennett’s London driveway — and proceeded to live there for the next 15 years.
Obviously, it was an extraordinary story and loved by one and all.
In the film version, Alex Jennings, who plays Bennett, stars along with Frances de la Tour, Roger Allam, Dominic Cooper, Jim Broadbent and James Corden. Damian Jones and Kevin Loader produced, along with Hytner.
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