The film, which made its world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival, will then open in limited release Jan. 15, 2016.
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 TV 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 a previous description.
The film casts as playwright Bennett with , , , Jim Broadbent and .
Director Hytner produces along with Damian Jones and Kevin Loader.
