The Last of the Blonde Bombshells

2000

Action / Comedy / Music

4
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 76% · 250 ratings
IMDb Rating 7.2/10 10 1775 1.8K

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Plot summary

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.

Director

Gillies MacKinnon Photo
Gillies MacKinnon

Top cast

Judi Dench Photo
Judi Dench as Elizabeth
Ian Holm Photo
Ian Holm as Patrick
James Cosmo Photo
James Cosmo as McNab
Romola Garai Photo
Romola Garai as Young Elizabeth
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766.32 MB
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English 2.0
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29.97 fps
1 hr 23 min
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English 2.0
PG-13
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29.97 fps
1 hr 23 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by R T 5 / 10

Judi Dench is remarkable as always, but this

Judi Dench is remarkable as always, but this movie fell a little flat due to relying on the music a bit too much and not telling enough story. It didn't feel like a realistic picture of aged singers or stars of that time. My Mom grew up in that time in London, and I remember her singing some of the songs in this movie!
Reviewed by R T 8 / 10

Dame Judi Dench is so wonderful in everything

Dame Judi Dench is so wonderful in everything she does. This was a delightful movie. The 50-year-flash-backs were handled exceptionally well. The current year story-line was not interfered with, and was very enjoyable. Nice movie!
Reviewed by R T 10 / 10

This is a flashback movie to a time

This is a flashback movie to a time and place that was WWII London. The protagonist, now a grandmother, is first seen enduring her deceased husband's funeral. A dreary opening it most assuredly is not. She has led a rather safe, staid and boring life of mother and housewife since the war, in contrast to when as a teenager she was the lead tenor saxophonist in an all-girl dance band (why? because all the male musicians were gone to war). She was "the youngest, the sweetest, and the most talented of the Blonde Bombshells", avers Betty the bandleader. After her husband's death, she turns to busking with a young male guitarist, to the chagrin of her stuffy children who look askance at their mother's musical adventuring as beneath the dignity of an elderly gentlewoman. I invite you see what mother Judi Dench's response is to her children. Just you wait and see! She chances to meet up with the drummer from the Bombshell band, and the two of them begin to hunt down their wartime colleagues in an effort to reunite the band. So, it is back and forth between the present and past, with sidekick granddaughter Joanna's character being central to the story's progress. Joanna is the only one who truly "gets" her grandmother, is completely in awe of her, encourages her grandmother's bold enterprises, and has a bond with her grandmum even stronger than with her own mother and uncle, who have grown up to be more like their "responsible" (read, boring) father. I don't want to spoil this movie for you with any further scenarizing. In short, this is an absolutely delightfully effervescent piece of comic historical fiction theatre that is full of good spirits, nostalgia for a very real period in British and world history, and overflowing with heart-warming emotion. It absolutely bears repeat viewing to the point of quotability, so pithy is the script. Do yourself a favor and acquaint yourself with this splendid length of celluloid that is one of Dame Judi's most memorable contributions to motion picture culture. Period. Is that enough of a rave?
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