'Tea with the Dames' Features No Tea But Offers Some Priceless Insights

If you’ve ever daydreamed about sitting down for a heartfelt chat and a cup of tea with a few of Britain’s most legendary living actresses, Tea with the Dames is your dream come true. Well almost,  since they never actually drink tea in this documentary (it was titled Nothing Like a Dame in the U.K.) and of course you have to imagine you’re at the table. Oh, the magic of the movies!

I got on a wait list for the DVD from my library a few months before its release. So when it finally arrived last week, my anticipation got the best of me and I watched it immediately. The film opens with some amusing vocal warm up exercises and these words:

“From time to time four old friends, all extraordinary actresses, meet up in the English countryside to gossip, to remember and to laugh. This time they let the cameras in.”