This type of film has been done before with " A Trip to Bountiful" with Geraldine Paige. That was a classic and earned her an Oscar. This film can hold its own with that one, and is about coming of age in the UK. Coming of age films can be of any age. There is the passage from childhood to adolescence; the most common of coming of age films. Then there are coming of age films for adult, marriage, divorce, and job satisfaction, among others. This film is a coming of age film for seniors, who must go through the painful process of becoming useless to society as a whole, since society, despite it protestations to the opposite, tends to marginalize senior adults. Each senior must learn to overcome this prejudice individually. Some of us do , but of many of us do not. This is one of the lucky ones.
Review of The Last Bus
