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Downton Abbey 2: A New Era [Opens May 20 in theaters.] While the aristocratic Crawley family (Elizabeth McGovern, Hugh Bonneville, Michael C. Fox, Laura Carmichael, Tuppence Middleton, and Allen Leech) and two butlers (Jim Carter and Brendan Coyle) head to the South of France in the 1920s when the dowager countess (Dame Maggie Smith) unexpectedly inherits a grand villa from a smitten Frenchman she met many years earlier leaving his son (Jonathan Zaccaï) and widow very surprised in Simon Curtis' captivating, well-acted, humor-punctuated, star-studded (Imelda Staunton, Matthew Goode, Fifi Hart, David Robb, Penelope Wilton, Samantha Bond, Douglas Reith, Raquel Cassidy, Jeremy Paul Swift, Harry Hadden-Paton, Susan Johnston, and Jonathan Coy), 124-minute film dominated by stunning cinematography, sets, costumes, and landscapes, a film director (Hugh Dancy), two lead actors (Dominic West and Laura Haddock), extras, and a crew ascend on Downton Abbey per the approval of Lady Mary (Michelle Dockery) and the delight of the staff (Joanne Froggatt, Sophie McShera, Phyllis Logan, Lesley Nicol, Robert James-Collier, and Kevin Doyle) to a film movie to help pay for repairs on the estate, including a roof that leaks like a sieve.   Redhead: Year: 2022 Rating:  PG View Downton Abbey 2: A New Era on the Internet Movie Database