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Lost for Words (TV 1999)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. Annie suffers her first stroke and a nursing home is the ... See full summary » Director:Alan J.W. Bell |
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Thora Hird | ... |
Annie Longden
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Nurse one
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Young man
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Gloria Brooks
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Fred Brooks
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Widower
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Doctor
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Mrs Corey
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Chemist
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Mrs. Nellie Elliot
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Do-gooder
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Hospital Sister
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Speech Therapist
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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. Annie suffers her first stroke and a nursing home is the obvious solution, but which one and where? Written by Mort Kingsley
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31 October 1999 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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Deric Longden: Thanks Luv, Where abouts?
Annie Longden: I've stuck it in the lock so you can find it.
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Jennifer Luckraft who plays a nurse, and Tom Higgins who play a doctor in this, played a nursing assistant and doctor respectively in Children's Ward. See more »Quotes
Annie Longden: Oh, Derek, I've left the key for you.Deric Longden: Thanks Luv, Where abouts?
Annie Longden: I've stuck it in the lock so you can find it.
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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.