The Last Bus

(2021)

★ 6.5 IMDb · 102 votes

Genres: Drama

Year: 2021

Runtime: 86 мин

Country: United Kingdom

Director: Gillies MacKinnon

Cast: Тимоти Сполл, Филлис Логан, Натали Митсон, Ben Ewing, Patricia Panther, Saskia Ashdown, Colin McCredie, Marnie Baxter, Iain Robertson, Susanna Laine

Plot

Widower Tom, on the recent passing of his wife Mary, uses his free bus pass to travel the length of Britain from John O'Groats in Caithness to Land's End in Cornwall, their shared birthplace, using only local buses. It's an incident-fuelled nostalgia trip and his encounters with local people make him a media phenomenon. Tom is totally unaware and to his surprise on arrival at Land’s End he’s greeted as a celebrity.

A heart-warming tale of Tom (Timothy Spall), a pensioner whose wife, Mary (Phyllis Logan), has just died, who travels from mainland Britain's most northerly point, John O'Groats, to his original home town at England's most westerly point, Land's End (NOT its most southerly, as this is Lizard Point, some miles away), using his free bus pass. He carries with him only a small suitcase, travelling the length of the country with it. Along the way, his adventures are recorded by the people he meets and helps, and by the end of his trip he has unwittingly become a social media celebrity.