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Somehow with a great cast headed by Judi Dench and Ian Holm and even smaller roles by Leslie Caron and Cleo Laine and on and on,I could only give 3 stars instead of the five I had hoped to give.Perhaps its a lack of"chemistry"or direction or just a slow moving back and forth with flashbacks that tempered my take on it but as a HBO film with such a cast and storyline it didn't deliver as I hoped.Released in 2000 and running only 84 minutes,its still worth your time as the story is unusual yet moving and oddly enough,in a story about older folks I felt that young Millie Findlay as a granddaughter was the real star of the film.I also smiled about roses on drum,you just have to see it.Trailer URL follows the picture and a IMDB summary is below.
After Elizabeth's husband dies, she begins to play her tenor saxophone again, and remembers when she was 15 and a member of the Blonde Bombshells, an all-girl (with one exception) swing band. Accompanied by the exception and urged on by her grand-daughter, Elizabeth hunts up all the old members of the band and urges them to perform, and in doing so, learns more than she knew about the band, its members, the roses on the drum set, and herself--the last of the Blonde Bombshells. Written by Kathy Li
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