Last Orders

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**Title** **Last Orders**
Author	Graham Swift
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Genre(s)	Novel
Publisher	Picador
Released	26 January 1996
Media type	Print (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages	304 pp (first edition, hardback)
ISBN	ISBN 0330345591 (first edition, hardback)

Last Orders
original film poster
Directed by	Fred Schepisi
Produced by	Chris Craib
Written by	Graham Swift and Fred Schepisi
Starring	Michael Caine Tom Courtenay David Hemmings Bob Hoskins Helen Mirren Ray Winstone
Distributed by	Columbia TriStar
Release date(s)	10 September 2001
Running time	109 min.
Language	English
Budget	$12,000,000
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Last Orders is a 1996 Booker Prize-winning novel

It was then adapted into a 2001 motion picture. The film was written and directed by Australian (Writer/Director/Producer) Fred Schepisi.

[edit] Plot summary

The story makes much use of flashbacks to tell the convoluted story of the relationships between a group of war veterans who live in the same corner of London, the backbone of the story being the journey of the group to Margate to scatter the ashes of Jack Dodds into the sea, in accord with his last wishes.

[edit] Film, TV or theatrical adaptations

A film was written and directed by Australian (Writer/Director/Producer) Fred Schepisi in 2001, and stars Michael Caine as Jack Dodds, Bob Hoskins as Ray, Ray Winstone as Vince Dodds, David Hemmings as Lenny and Tom Courtenay as Vic Tucker.The film was much applauded by British critics and audiences; its reception was less kind in the United States where both the strong London accents and elements of the cultural context were not easily understood.^{[citation needed]}