Driving Lessons

Driving Lessons is a 2006 British dramedy film written and directed by Jeremy Brock. The plot focuses on the relationship between a shy teenaged boy and an ageing eccentric actress.

Notably Lauras religious side appears to be completely invented to simply bully her husband and son. Amongst Lauras many random and meanspirited rulings she refuses to allow Ben to have a mobile phone they cause cancer, refuses to allow him go hang around with people his own age and uses his driving lessons as a way to be ferried around for her affair with Peter, who appears unrepentant for sleeping with his mentors wife. Miserable in his life, Ben writes poems for a girl, named Sarah, he knows from church. He decides to read his most recent Sarah Poem to her aloud, only to result in him being rebuked by Sarah. Before Sarah walks off in embarrassment, she tells him that hes just too weird.At his mothers urging he seeks summer employment, so that she can pay for the upkeep of a mental patient, named Mr. Fincham, she has adopted. Ben responds to an ad placed by Dame Evie Walton, an alcoholic, classically trained actress who was reduced to accepting a role on a daytime soap opera when her once flourishing career began to fade and who hasnt worked since the series ended, to her annoyance. In search of a companion to assist her in the house and drive her to various appointments, Evie immediately takes to Ben and offers him the position. ........

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