The shenanigans of sweet and grumpy old men certainly plays to the back rows – but it’s impossible not to be charmed
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Four elderly Vietnam veterans, who busted out of a PoW camp many moons ago, reunite in their twilight years for another daring mission: to escape from a nursing home!
The core premise of director Mark Lamprell’s new
comedy Never Too Late – written by Luke Preston – is a quintessential example of what’s known in the movie trade as a “high concept”, meaning a pithy premise that can be written down on space no larger than the back of a matchbox.