Driving Lessons

...Julie Walters giving a very happy and funny performance as the imperious retired actress in this genial new British film.

She’s a force of nature whose deft handling of Evie’s comic eccentricities and emotional wounds raises her far above her co-stars.

...it has an appealing feel-good factor and could be this year's “Calendar Girls,” another Brit-flick sleeper hit.

...[a] sentimental British drama about a young Londoner who escapes his sanctimonious, hypocritical mother's influence through the friendship of an aging actress.