Driving Lessons

• Rupert Grint: Ben Marshall
• Julie Walters: Evie Walton
• Laura Linney: Laura Marshall
• Nicolas Farrell: Robert Marshall
• Michelle Duncan: Bryony
• Tamsin Egerton: Sarah
• Oliver Milburn: Peter
• Jim Norton: Mr. Fincham

Driving Lessons - Full speed ahead Life is a British film made in 2006, he was first performed on 30 April 2006 at the Tribeca Film Festival.. ZDF has the film repeatedly "On the Road with Evie " aired under the title.

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The film is about a shy 17- year-old boy, Ben Marshall, his overbearing mother Laura Marshall tries to escape. His mother it's been, has insisted him to prepare for the driving test, but this is her so badly managed that Ben, fails miserably on the first attempt to take the practical exam. Ben's father Robert Marshall is pastor of the Anglican Church. But it is his mother who puts an unusual missionary zeal. So she takes a confused old man, Mr. Fincham, on the house. To this man to be able to help financially, she lets Ben take a summer job. Ben finds his father in a magazine ad of the aged actress Evie Walton. Through his friendship with this woman, Ben slowly begins to separate from the mother. In this experiment, it is not supported by the father, who is struggling even with a marital crisis and rather busy with his hobby ornithology. Ben, who also writes poetry, fails in this time when trying the same age as Sarah to approach from the parish.

After some time, Ben brings Evie by tricking to accompany her to Edinburgh, where they will attend a literature festival. Ben should not even ride actually, because his mother did not allow him. Since Evie pretending to not go, Ben must get behind the wheel, even though he has not passed the driving test. When Ben learns that Evie has no driver's license, it is already too late to turn. So Ben may yet, without mother, the necessary driving skills to acquire.

In Edinburgh, Ben learns the young publishing assistant Bryony, with whom he first goes to the disco and then to her apartment. When he wakes up later on in the day, he discovers that Evie would have to be on the stage already. He knows that she is without him not utter a word. Evie had previously claimed that she was terminally ill. Therefore, Ben organized for them quickly another, last appearance; However, Evie rejects him and confesses that she was not terminally ill.

So Ben leads them home. There already awaits him his mother, who every further contact with Evie forbids him because she is afraid of losing their influence on Ben. Ben must resume running errands for his mother and the children's theater, which organized his mother in the parish with a group of scouts take on the role of a eucalyptus tree. Ben leaves the stage but during the piece and goes to Evie, to apologize for his absence. Then Ben returns to the room and takes his role again. During the final scene, but has a fantastic Evie into the hall and takes Ben under the approval of the audience with. Ben takes the opportunity to publicly complain about the tutelage of his mother, and gives the example that the practice drives only served to her, her lover - the priest Peter, who, many actions of the mother, as the staging support has bring to.

Before the building Laura tries to persuade her son again to stay. Since, however, comes the confused house guest of the Marshall family wrapped with Laura's car and her clothes and goes to Laura. Laura will it admitted to the hospital, where Ben's parents decide to separate, his mother leaves the house to the fired by Bishop Peter.

Ben pulls then temporarily in the garden, where he sets up a tent, and takes a job in a bookstore. In a lunch break he visited Evie and tells her that he wants to study literature in Edinburgh.

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Rupert Grint was during the shooting 16 years old. As in England, the driving is allowed but only from 17, were driving scenes Rupert only be turned on private roads. Grint plays Harry Potter in the role of Ron Weasley, Julie Walters plays his mother Molly Weasley there.