Liz Smith's Summer
Biographies / Inspiring Stories • 58m
A film about age, loneliness and an old lady at sea, this is a celebrity travelogue like you've never seen before. Actress Liz Smith, known for playing elderly women (who are always eventually killed off) she is now 87 and while her life has been an eventful one, she's never had a real holiday. This is her chance to fulfil her modest ambition on a cruise across the Adriatic to Venice. Will the holiday be worth leaving her sheltered accommodation for? How can it ever live up to her dreams?
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