September 18, 2014 – D Films will release Israel Horovitz’s new dramedy My Old Lady in Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver on October 3, 2014, with further expansion nationwide the following week. The film recently had its world premiere at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival and features an all-star cast including Academy Award® winners Maggie Smith (Downton Abbey) and Kevin Kline (Last Vegas) and Academy Award® nominee Kristin Scott Thomas (The English Patient).

My Old Lady tells the story of Mathias Gold (Kevin Kline), a down-and-out New Yorker who travels to Paris to liquidate a huge and valuable apartment he has inherited from his estranged father. When he reaches his apartment in Paris he finds Mathilde Girard (Maggie Smith), a refined old lady living in the apartment with her daughter, Chloe (Kristin Scott Thomas). He then discovers the romantic history between Mathilde and his father, a romance that lasted over half a century.

Making his feature film directorial debut is Israel Horovitz, who also wrote the screenplay for the film.  Horovitz is the most produced American playwright in French theatre history and has recently been decorated as Commandeur de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, France’s highest honour for foreign artists.  He has written over 70 plays that have been translated and performed in more than 30 languages worldwide. Horovitz has also written numerous award winning screenplays includingThe Strawberry Statement, which took the jury prize at Cannes in 1970, the Al Pacino comedyAuthor! Author! and Sunshine, the winner of the 1999 European Film Award for Best Screenplay.

Rachael Horovitz of Specialty Films teamed with French producers Raphael Benoliel, NitsaBenchetrit and David Barrot to produce.  The film is also co-produced by Marie-Cecile Renauld.

My Old Lady was recently released in the US by Cohen Media Group.