Maggie Smith Joins the Best Actress Race with Lady in the Van

Maggie Smith helms what will likely do pretty good business in limited release, The Lady in the Van. Maggie Smith played the character in the original 1999 production. It “tells the true story about an elderly woman called Mary Shepherd who lived in a battered car on the driveway of the writer Alan Bennett for 15 years.” Pic is directed by Sir Nicholas Robert Hytner.