The Lady in the Van (2015) Maggie Smith - Movie Review

Smith stars as Miss Mary Shepherd, an elderly woman who lives in a van in Camden Town, a North London residential area (reportedly filmed at the very location), who ends up moving ever so slightly into the driveway of a bleeding-heart playwright Bennett, much to the consternation of Bennett's neighbors, who see the van as an eyesore and Mary as a nuisance who offends their every sense, especially as she isn't quite successful at proper waste disposal. Alex Jennings portrays two versions of Alan Bennett, one the author at the typewriter and the other the one who actually does the real living; they perpetually converse and conflict with one another about the story at hand, though the characters around them only see them as the latter entity.