The childishness of the sweet and grumpy old people certainly plays like secondary choices – but it’s impossible not to be captivated by this story.
If on one of the last warm evenings of this summer you want to be moved, laughed and pondered, look for the movie Never Too Late in which four elderly Vietnam veterans who escaped from a POW camp fifty years ago, reunite for another daring mission: to escape from a nursing home.
Does it look like a boring case that you feel you’ve seen before? Probably not.
The premise of director Mark Lamprell’s Aussie comedy Never Too Late – written by Luke Preston – features a cast of some irresistible film and TV veterans – James Cromwell, Jack Thompson, Roy Billing and Dennis Waterman.
Cromwell plays Bronson, leader of the Chain Breakers, a group of brave men who freed prisoners in the Vietnam War. Today the Chean Breakers are some tired old men, facing their choices, their mistakes and their misfortunes. Fifty years later their motto remains: “No excuses, no guilt”
Thompson is Angus, a former athlete now dealing with the onset of Alzheimer’s. Billing is a tough guy, an ex-convict, who sends letters – which bounce back – to his son who has refused to see him for half a century. Waterman is Jeremiah, who only has two months to live and longs to set sail on his sailboat for one last voyage.
This gang plans to escape from Hogan Hills Returned Servicemen and Women’s Nursing Home so Bronson can propose to the love of his life, Norma (Jacki Weaver) – who, like Angus, is also losing her memory . Norma and Bronson did not live up to their love although they enlisted together in the army, he as a soldier and she as a nurse. Norma when she came back thinking Bronson was dead got married but she was always thinking about him.
While “Never Too Late” uses plenty of cliché jokes, it also aims to shine a light on some more serious points. Captivity, war, bravery, old age, dementia, second chances.
In Never Too Late you will hear some useful advice about life and you will be troubled with various thoughts. Lin, the director of the nursing home answers in one scene the question “did she make it?” with “does anyone ever really make it?” which will trouble you. Bronson in the camp kept company and cheered up his friends with stories of the cinema that changed their ending. Bronson until he found Norma spent almost his entire life wondering if all stories can really have a happy ending. Norma on the other hand, Bronson’s girl believes that stories only have happy endings as long as…
“No excuses, no guilt,” indeed.
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