Dean Spanley

IMDb link: 1135968
IMDb rating: 7.2 (3,991 votes)
Genres: Comedy, Drama
Director: Toa Fraser
Cast: Sam Neill, Peter O'Toole, Bryan Brown, Jeremy Northam and others

Release date: 12 Dec 2008
Release year: 2008
Runtime: 100 minutes
Country: New Zealand, United Kingdom
Keywords: pet owner relationship, old man, briton, character name as title, two word title, year 1904, college dean, dead son, weekly event, widower

Plot:

Each Thursday, a man approaching middle age calls upon his father, aged, caustic, nihilistic, and emotionally distant, perhaps from the loss of a son in the Boer War and his wife soon after. On this day, the son suggests they attend a visiting guru's lecture on the transmigration of souls. There they chat with a vicar and a soldier of fortune; dinner follows. Over glasses of Hungarian Tokay, the vicar, Dean Spanley, tells a story of friendship, freedom, and reincarnation. In what earthly way could this tale connect father and son?

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