The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel: Bill Nighy On His Character Trailer (2012)

Cast: Bill Nighy, Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, Tom Wilkinson, Celia Imrie, Dev Patel

Description: THE BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL follows a group of British retirees who decide to "outsource" their retirement to less expensive and seemingly exotic India. Enticed by advertisements for the newly restored Marigold Hotel and bolstered with visions of a life of leisure, they arrive to find the palace a shell of its former self. Though the new environment is less luxurious than imagined, they are forever transformed by their shared experiences, discovering that life and love can begin again when you let go of the past.

Genre: Comedy

Studio: Fox Searchlight Pictures

Offical Website: http://www.foxsearchlight.com

Rating: Movie Rating

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05/11/2012 @ 12:00 AM

Basically, there's just too much crammed into \Marigold Hotel\ for any of it to have impact. It may work as comfort food for old folks, but a bit less may have yielded a great deal more.

Tom Long, Detroit News

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05/10/2012 @ 12:00 AM

The old pros elevate Hotel's otherwise pat screenplay into that sweet spot where predictability fails to negate pleasure.

William Goss, Film.com

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05/05/2012 @ 12:00 AM

They're stuck with a script, by Ol Parker, that's stuffed with contrivance and cliche, and doggedly repetitive as it tracks its characters' efforts to find new love and adapt to new surroundings.

Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal

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05/04/2012 @ 8:00 PM

Review: Your Parents Are Going to Love ‘The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel’

Your parents probably don't want to go to The Avengers this weekend (and that's okay!) but audiences can do far worse for themselves than to take a quick cinematic trip to John Madden&#8216s The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel. While a film about a pack of retired Brits heading off to live in a swank retirement resort in India that, surprise!, turns out to be a rundown old hotel might sound like the most boring and narrowly appealing film of the year, Madden's film is actually consistently delightful and charming, with enough characters and plot points to engage just about any viewer. Running just over two hours, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel is able to tackle issues big (homophobia, arranged marriage) and small (there are too many flies in my rundown retirement hotel room!), and despite a few moments that feel far too obvious, Madden and his cast have crafted a lovely film with unexpect (Read More)

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