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Last Orders (2001)
Sad movie
Very good movie about people at the end of their lives as they carry out the last wishes, or "last orders" for the cremated body of Michael Caine's character, Jack Dodds. Dodds asks for his ashes to be scattered from a pier, and the movie takes place with Dodds' closest friends, and son driving across England to the pier. Much of the movie contains flashbacks by the characters to their past.
Dodd is a lovable man who owned a butcher shop, but had a selfish streak, especially toward his family.
The movie also stars Bob Hoskins, who plays a gambler that first met Jack in the British Army during World War II, Tom Courtenay, who plays an undertaker, David Hemmings, who plays a former boxer, Helen Mirren, who plays Jack's widow, and Ray Winstone, who plays Jack's son Vince, a car dealer.
JJ Feild plays young Jack Dodds, and bares a remarkable likeness to Caine.
The movie contains a significant number of sexual references and nudity.
Memphis Belle (1990)
Actually was an fairly accurate account...
The movie actually was a fairly accurate account of the Belle's experiences except that the movie had everything that actually happened to the plane and crew on its 25 flights happen on the last flight. The one thing missing was that a Belle waist gunner ended up with frost bite on his hands and was replaced. The characters in the movie were fictional. I've seen some comments by people that it was unrealistic for a 21-year old (Matthew Modine's Dennis Dearborn character) to be the pilot. The real Belle pilot, Robert K. Morgan, was only 24 when they began flying missions in late 1942. Some of the movie's dialogue actually was said by crew during the Belle's missions. The government produced a 1944 documentary on the Memphis Belle directed by William Wyler and if you watch it you will recognize some of the scenes and dialogue from this movie.