The Last Bus

Movie

2021

1h 28m

English

Drama

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The Last Bus

Movie

2021

1h 28m

English

Drama

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Widower Tom, on the recent passing of his wife Mary, uses his free bus pass to travel the length of Britain from John O'Groats in Caithness to Land's End in Cornwall, their shared birthplace, using only local buses. It's an incident-fuelled nostalgia trip and his encounters with local people make him a media phenomenon. Tom is totally unaware and to his surprise on arrival at Land’s End he’s greeted as a celebrity.

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Cast

Tom

Mary

Young Mary

Young Tom

Tracy

Imogen

Graham

Alice

Andrey

Maria

Moira (Vigilante)

Alicia (Nurse)

Dr Martin

Colin (Wannabe Soldier)

Linda Lyon

Jan (Passenger with Correct Fare)

Pete

Anne

Stuart

Rory

Carol (Thieving Junkie)

Patsy Blower

Francesca (Café Waitress)

Manjot Sumal

Dr. Aziz (Oncologist)

Kevin Mains

Neil (Racist)

Maryam Hamidi

Sophia (Abused Passenger)

Marianne McIvor

Sue (Supportive Passenger)

Directed By: Gillies MacKinnon

Written By: Joe Ainsworth

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Lee Brown Barrow says...

3 years ago

Timothy Spall is always worth watching and he turns in a great performance here. However, the film didn’t have the emotional impact I expected so while I had no problem catching the bus, I didn’t mind getting off it again at the journey’s end.

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Davecl says...

12 months ago

Just watched this.. absolutely superb, cried my eyes out

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Spiritualized Kaos says...

3 years ago

An odyssey to make the journey with the UK public bus transport network

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miguelreina says...

3 years ago

A pleasant story about human relationships that is sometimes too obvious in its approaches, somewhat nostalgic about the way in which the interrelation between people has changed and the non-acceptance of multiculturalism. With the support of an emotional performing of Timothy Spall, it manages to drive away sentimentality, although the third act, that of the vindication of human feeling, is somewhat corny.

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Peter McGinn

3 years ago

This is a slow-paced movie where not much exciting happens. You can see that just by reading the reviews: the negative ones that use words like boring, and nothing happens! This is perhaps why there is such an audience out there for end to end action movies. A lot of viewers want movies with simple More

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CinemaSerf

3 weeks ago

Having recently lost his wife to cancer, "Tom" (Timothy Spall) decides to meticulously follow a route they took many years earlier from John O'Groats in Caithness all the way down the island of Great Britain to his hometown near Land's End in Cornwall - some 800-odd miles away. Armed only with a thi More

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