Crime doesn't pay - until you're old and grey!

SYNOPSIS:

“ROYAL FLUSH “ (Never Too Late) SYNOPSIS Four residents of a run-down Bed and Breakfast “home” for senior citizens in London review the failures in their long and colourful lives, and come to the conclusion that it’s far better to take a last chance at adventure, risk and fortune than sit and wait for death. Helped by a regular visitor to the residence, herself having “seen life”, they plan a security van heist. Calling in favours from old acquaintances they plan the job down to the last detail. Disgruntled by the way life has treated them, we see through flashbacks their hunger for redemption, and their precarious situation today through illness, and desperation at the proposed demolition of their home. Things, however go south, and although they successfully get away with the money, three members of the “gang” succumb to the stress and excitement, and simply old age. The remaining couple of hero/heroine, while narrowly escaping from the vigorous police investigation, manage to spend time and money creating bizarre memorials to their departed partners. Their dreams were unfulfilled, granted, but the memorials (including appearances at Madame Tussauds and Westminster Abbey) pay them the respect due. Finally achieving their respective dreams, our couple part, and the ultimate twist brings back to life one of the “deceased” to share good fortune with our hero, who having acted as narrator during the story, now comments to the audience that life after 70 is full of opportunity, if one uses life’s experience, acquired talents, lasting friendships and continued good health. That it’s “Never Too Late”. The script echoes the growing fashion for the “old fart” genre – About Schmidt, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, The Bucket List, The Quartet, etc.,- to bring to light the fact that the retired are now referred to as the 3rd and 4th age group – “middle age” and “old age” pensioners. There is potential here to prove the old adage that “there’s still life in the old dog yet!” Longer life expectancy, economic pressures, and general political dissatisfaction all contribute to attracting an audience that is hungry for revenge/redemption – especially for the tired and frustrated aged in our society. This screenplay contains no gratuitous violence or continuous tirades of strong language. It is a British movie, which develops in British language about a group of old Brits.