What happens when four legends of British stage and screen get together? Dame Maggie Smith, Dame Judi Dench, Dame Eileen Atkins, and Dame Joan Plowright are among the most celebrated actresses of our time, with scores of iconic performances, decades of wisdom, and innumerable Oscars, Tonys, Emmys, and BAFTAs between them. They are also longtime friends who invite you to join them for a weekend in the country as they catch up with one another, reminisce, and share their candid, delightfully irreverent thoughts on everything from art to aging to love to a life lived in the spotlight. Their filmed get-together, Tea With The Dames, (originally titled Nothing Like a Dame when it was released in the UK earlier last year), allows us to sit quietly among these extraordinary, “legendary” women at Joan Plowright’s home in the English countryside and eavesdrop on their tales of horrible bullying directors (all men, of course); their self-doubt and lack of courage even after they’d achieved enviable success; and the peculiarities and indignities of getting old as women, particularly in our culture, which has little use for little old ladies. (Needless to say, they smash the stereotype of the “little old lady”). “For the simple idea of sitting them all at a table and turning on a couple of movie cameras, the director Roger Michell should get a royal commendation himself,” says Glenn Kenny of the New York Times. “If you don’t already adore and worship these women before you see this film (though what is wrong with you if you don’t?) you will afterward,” adds MaryAnn Johanson of Flick Filosopher. 1:24. Not rated but contains appropriate amounts of profanity.