Golden Years
Refusing to take the loss of their pensions lying down and to fade away into their declining years, retirees Arthur and Martha Goode decide to rob some banks and take back what was theirs in the first place.
25 December 1966, London, England, UK
1937, Swansea, Wales, UK
22 August 1959, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, England, UK
13 June 1949, London, England, UK
7 June 1931, Marylebone, London, England, UK
13 May 1972, Birmingham, West Midlands, England, UK
27 July 1977, UK
12 March 1983, Yeovil, Somerset, England, UK
April 28, 2016
The humour is exceedingly gentle and the plot increasingly improbable. But John Miller directs steadily and the performances are irresistibly knowing.
December 09, 2016
Every member of the cast... deserved a better, less far-fetched, plot than director John Miller and writers Miller, Nick Knowles and Jeremy Sheldon have devised for them.
August 08, 2016
John Miller's good-natured picture makes a noble stab at yoking real-world social problems to capering.
April 28, 2016
Gentle the film's good-natured, well-meaning comedy most certainly is, soft-edged and reassuring too - but it's also so full of stock characters and movie cliches that the whole thing feels a bit like a missed opportunity.
May 15, 2016
That the duo's robbery spree is such a gentle affair is the source of many of the movie's gags - their getaway car is a Volvo with a caravan on the back - but the geriatric pace means that the laughs are on the gentle side, too.
January 02, 2017
A film too stiff for comedy, too silly for drama and too slow for fun in between.
November 27, 2016
...a gentle comedy with something to say...
May 01, 2016
Despite a likable cast of television and theatre stalwarts, this limps along like a botched hip operation.
October 13, 2016
Substandard jokes about "slap and tickle" and vibrators, and parochial references to Pot Noodles nowhere near sophisticated enough for the intended audience.
April 28, 2016
There are the seeds of something interesting here, but premise and talent are ill-served by crude and cliched characterisation and thudding execution ...
November 26, 2016
Founded on solidly serious themes of ageing, dying, illness and crime, the film does not on the surface offer much hope for fun, but the surface is exactly where the fun is
