It would have been sad.
What did the writer Mr. Fellowes do? Did he turn the writing over to a group freshman high school 'film studies' students. Was he lost for a plot with a solid foundation so he expanded on the storyline from 'Singing in the Rain'?
This flick has it all - a long forgotten lover, a possible discovery of the real father of Violet's son, an unxpected inheritance, a bitchy Hollywood starlet who see's her career melting due to movies with sound having arrrived, a handsome Hollywood actor who has the hots for a butler of Downton Abbey, a staff of servants who find themselves cast as upper class dinner guest, a frustrated director, and on it goes. Every cliche possible.
Maggie Smith gave a wind-up old lady doll performance and the rest of the cast should have been paper dolls because that was about all they gave.
What did the writer Mr. Fellowes do? Did he turn the writing over to a group freshman high school 'film studies' students. Was he lost for a plot with a solid foundation so he expanded on the storyline from 'Singing in the Rain'?
This flick has it all - a long forgotten lover, a possible discovery of the real father of Violet's son, an unxpected inheritance, a bitchy Hollywood starlet who see's her career melting due to movies with sound having arrrived, a handsome Hollywood actor who has the hots for a butler of Downton Abbey, a staff of servants who find themselves cast as upper class dinner guest, a frustrated director, and on it goes. Every cliche possible.
Maggie Smith gave a wind-up old lady doll performance and the rest of the cast should have been paper dolls because that was about all they gave.