The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2015)

This is a sequel to the highly popular film The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

Summary

-Sonny Kapoor (Dev Patel) dreams of opening a second location for his Best Exotic Marigold Hotel. And not a moment too soon as well. Two fresh arrivals have come, creating a problem for his original hotel, which only has one room vacant

Cast

-Dev Patel: Sonny Kapoor

-Maggie Smith: Muriel Donnelly

-Danny Mahoney: Car Valet

-David Strathairn: Ty Burley

-Judi Dench: Evelyn Greenslade

-Bill Nighy: Douglas Ainslie

-Celia Imrie: Madge Hardcastle

-Ronald Pickup: Norman Cousins

-Diana Hardcastle: Carol Parr

-Fiona Mollison: Susan

-Richard Gere: Guy Chambers

Did You Know?

-The character Ronald Pickup tells a joke revolving around the Archbishop of Canterbury at the expats club. Ironically, he plays the archbishop on The Crown

-Rumor has it that Colin Firth and Helen Mirren were supposed to join the cast

-Douglas Ainslie (Bill Nighy) is seen reading the poem "Ulysses". This is the same poem that Evelyn Greenslade (Dame Judi Dench) was seen reading in the 2012 film Skyfall, where she played M

-Dev Patel is of Indian heritage, but he was born and raised in Britain. His parents are of Indian heritage, but they were born in Kenya

-Evelyn Greenslade (Dame Judi Dench) makes a claim that she is only nineteen days younger than Muriel Donnelly (Dame Maggie Smith). In real life, Maggie Smith, who was born on Dec. 28, 1934, is nineteen days younger than Dame Judi Dench, who was born on Dec. 9, 1934