Learning To Drive
Thanks to the friendship with a driving instructor, a middle-ages book critic who is shattered when her husband Ted leaves her learns to take control of her life. And he also learns how to adjust to his new life after an arranged marriage.
13 February 1960, Windsor, Vermont, USA
18 August 1966, London, England, UK
25 October 1969, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
9 May 1986, New York City, New York, USA
31 December 1943, Scarborough, Yorkshire, England, UK
14 September 1945, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
June1971, Brookline, Massachusetts, USA
5 July 1980, Detroit, Michigan, USA
19 March 1964, London, England, UK
June 09, 2016
It's a gentle, uneventful film with a fair amount of charm ...June 12, 2016
An unremarkable but endearing film.September 03, 2015
It's a beautifully acted tale of friendship, and about how sometimes, you just need to move forward - in a car, or otherwise.December 27, 2016
Clarkson -- wonderful -- remains one of the least sung and most skilled of America's thinking screen divas.September 03, 2015
"Learning to Drive" would be an entirely inert expedition were it not for Clarkson, who plays against Kingsley's sentinel of propriety with her signature radiance and birdlike gracefulness.September 10, 2015
Learning to Drive is a story of companionship, loneliness, resilience. It's a small, artfully crafted thing, but it resonates in big ways.June 12, 2016
Clarkson, in particular, is spot-on; her character unfolds gradually into the serenity that comes with hard-earned self-sufficiency. And the gentle, low-key humour belies some spiky observations about multicultural America.September 10, 2015
Together, [Kingsley and Clarkson] have so much to learn, and the operation of an automobile provides so many opportunities for metaphor.August 28, 2015
The film also provides an interesting view into Sikh culture, illustrating in colorful detail the various rituals that inform the devout driving instructor's personal life.September 11, 2015
"Learning to Drive" is precisely the sort of adult-themed, intelligent and heartfelt film it wants to be, with Clarkson and Kingsley wonderfully on point.