The Lady in the Van (2016)

The Lady in the Van full movie is released on Feb 26, 2016. Watch The Lady in the Van online - the English Biography movie from United Kingdom , which has achieved a worldwide gross of $41,387,687. The Lady in the Van is directed by Nicholas Hytner and created by Alan Bennett with Maggie Smith and Jim Broadbent. The Lady in the Van is available online on Amazon Video and Vudu.

This movie tells the true story of Alan Bennett's (Alex Jennings') strained friendship with Miss Mary Shepherd (Dame Maggie Smith), an eccentric homeless woman who Bennett befriended in the 1970s before allowing her temporarily to park her Bedford van in the driveway of his Camden house. She stayed there for fifteen years. As the story develops, Bennett learns that Miss Shepherd is really Margaret Fairchild (died 1989), a former gifted pupil of pianist Alfred Cortot. She had played Chopin in a promenade concert, tried to become a nun, was committed to an institution by her brother, escaped, had an accident when her van was hit by a motorcyclist for which she believed herself to blame, and thereafter lived in fear of arrest.