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Learning to Drive is a 2014 American comedy drama film. Directed by Isabel Coixet and written by Sarah Kernochan based on a New Yorker article by Katha Pollitt, [2] the film stars Patricia Clarkson as Wendy, a successful book critic [3] taking driving lessons with instructor Darwan (Ben Kingsley) after the breakup of her marriage to Ted forces her to become more self-sufficient.
Rated 3/5 Stars • Rated 3 out of 5 stars 10/14/19 Full Review Audience Member Learning to Drive has good performances and there but the movie falls a little short. The movie is not really that ...
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- Isabel Coixet
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- Patricia Clarkson
Learning to Drive: Directed by Isabel Coixet. With Patricia Clarkson, Ben Kingsley, Jake Weber, Sarita Choudhury. As her marriage dissolves, a Manhattan writer takes driving lessons from a Sikh instructor with his own marriage troubles.
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- Comedy, Drama, Romance
- Isabel Coixet
- 2015-08-21
Jun 9, 2016 · That’s the acting dynamic. Surprisingly it works. As a wrinklies’ romcom the film is as sweet as Driving Miss Daisy while less likely to rot your teeth. The script itself adds judicious ...
Aug 21, 2015 · Report. 8. GangKutti. Sep 16, 2015. Isabel Coixet's light hearted, soulfully intimate low-key comedy drama is a lovely excursion. Wendy (Patricia Clarkson) is a sharp-tongued book critic, struggling to take control of her life, as her husband walks out of their 21 year old marital life for a younger woman. Her only daughter is off at Vermont.
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Director Isabel Coixet and screenplay writer Sarah Kernochan have accomplished this rare feat with Learning to Drive, a radiant, subtle, and engrossing story about the blossoming friendship between a New York book critic and a Indian-American driving teacher. Wendy (Patricia Clarkson) is an upper-middle class critic whose 21-year marriage to ...
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Aug 18, 2015 · August 18, 2015. Learning to Drive is director Isabel Coixet’s second straight film about a professional critic’s life being thrown into disarray. In 2008’s Elegy, a cultural critic, played by Ben Kingsley, becomes sexually possessive over a student after years of generally maintaining distant, physical relationships with lovers.