Oscar winner reprises her stage role in the Sony Pictures Classics film, which features direction by .
Smith, a Tony winner for her performance in , and currently popular for playing the Dowager Countess in the series "Downton Abbey," plays Miss Mary Shepherd, "an eccentric woman of uncertain origins, who 'temporarily' parked her broken-down van in Bennett鈥檚 London driveway 鈥� and proceeded to live there for the next 15 years," according to the industry site.
The film casts as playwright Bennett with , , , Jim Broadbent and .
Director Hytner produces along with Damian Jones and Kevin Loader.
