Travels with My Aunt (1972)

6.3PG112 minDirector: George Cukor

1972 film based on the 1969 novel

Travels with My Aunt is a 1972 American comedy film directed by George Cukor, written by Jay Presson Allen and Hugh Wheeler, and starring Maggie Smith. The film is loosely based on the 1969 novel of the same name by Graham Greene. The film's plot retains the book's central theme of the adventurous, amoral aunt and her respectable middle class nephew drawn in to share her life, and also features her various past and present lovers who were introduced in the book, while providing this cast of characters with different adventures to the ones thought up by Greene, in different locales (North Africa rather than the book's South America). It was released on December 17, 1972.

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What is Travels with My Aunt about?
Travels with My Aunt (1972) — At his mother's funeral, stuffy bank clerk Henry Pulling meets his Aunt Augusta Bertram (Dame Maggie Smith), an elderly eccentric with more-than-shady dealings who pulls him along on a whirlwind adventure as she attempts to rescue an old lover.
Is Travels with My Aunt based on a true story?
See the production background and source material details on the official Wikipedia article.
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Content rating: PG. See the reviews tab for parental guidance and tone notes.
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