In this movie, Evelyn Greenslade (Dame Judi Dench) claims Muriel Donnelly (Dame Maggie Smith) is only nineteen days older than her. In real life, Smith (born December 28, 1934) is nineteen days younger than Dench (born December 9, 1934).
Dev Patel was not raised in India. He was born and raised in Britain (born in Harrow, London). His parents were both born in Kenya. They have Indian heritage.
Opened at number one in the U.K., Australia, and New Zealand with $9.6 million, topping the original in all three overseas markets.
Bill Nighy (Douglas Ainslie) reads from Alfred Lord Tennyson's poem "Ulysses", the same poem from which Dame Judi Dench (Evelyn Greenslade) reads in Skyfall (2012).