Blu-ray Release: Tea with the Dames

DVD Release Date: May 5, 2020
Price: Blu-ray $19.99
Studio: IFC


Four legends of British stage and screen–Dame Maggie Smith, Dame Judi Dench, Dame Eileen Atkins, and Dame Joan Plowright—get together and share some tea in the not ironically titled Tea with the Dames.

The winners of zillions of Oscars, Tonys, Emmys, and BAFTAs, the ladies are also longtime friends who hereby “invite you” to join them for a weekend in the country as they catch up with one another, reminisce, and share their candid, delightfully irreverent thoughts on everything from art to aging to love to a life lived in the spotlight.

It’s a lot of fun and, as can be seen in this lively 90 minutes, there is nothing like a dame…

It’s directed by BAFTA award winner Roger Michell (Le Week-End).

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About Laurence

Founder and editor Laurence Lerman saw Alfred Hitchcock’s North by Northwest when he was 13 years old and that’s all it took. He has been writing about film and video for more than a quarter of a century for magazines, anthologies, websites and most recently, Video Business magazine, where he served as the Reviews Editor for 15 years.