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6.8/10   121 votes
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Director:
Alan J.W. Bell
Writers:
Deric Longden (book)
Deric Longden (screenplay)
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Release Date:
31 October 1999 (USA) more
Genre:
Drama more
Plot:
Deric Longden and his wife, Aileen, come to terms with the fact that his mother, Annie, is getting too old to live on her own... more | add synopsis
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Awards:
4 wins & 3 nominations more
User Comments:
Pure Pathos! more

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)
Thora Hird ... Annie Longden (as Dame Thora Hird)

Pete Postlethwaite ... Deric Longden
Penny Downie ... Aileen Longden
Jennifer Luckraft ... Nurse one
David Shimwell ... Young man
Anne Reid ... Gloria Brooks
Keith Clifford ... Fred Brooks
Eddie Caswell ... Widower
Tom Higgins ... Doctor
Diana Flacks ... Mrs Corey
Malcolm Hebden ... Chemist
Ruth Holden ... Nellie Elliot
Dinah Handley ... Do-gooder
Katherine Dow Blyton ... Hospital Sister
Gillian Waugh ... Speech Therapist
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Additional Details

Runtime:
75 min
Country:
UK
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Sound Mix:
Stereo

Fun Stuff

Quotes:
Woman in wheelchair: [groans in pain] Aagh! Renal colic.
Annie Longden: [shakes woman's hand] Annie Longden. Pleased to meet you.
[to Deric]
Annie Longden: She must be French with a name like that.
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Movie Connections:
Follows Wide-Eyed and Legless (1993) (TV) more

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2 out of 2 people found the following comment useful:-
Pure Pathos!, 27 April 2005
10/10
Author: andrewhb65 from London, England.

This bittersweet exploration of what familial love is, and the pain there is for all concerned in losing someone to this most alienating of diseases (alzheimers) proves something exceptional in that it shows Dame Thora aware of her own frailty (physically and mentally) yet still able to put it all together for one last truly great performance.

It tells too of the various shades of reality of existence that really are what some mental illness (or deterioration) can be about.

And it's OK to laugh, because it shows the fragility of what we are all so sure of...our hold on the world and the way we see it. And that certainty is laughable.

Pete Postlethwaite - magic.

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