Learning to Drive

Dir. Isabel Coixet · · 90 min · 9/9/2014

After her marriage ends, a Manhattan writer (Patricia Clarkson) takes driving lessons that become a late-life education in independence and self-trust. An understated story of rebuilding confidence on one’s own.

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