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31 October 1999 (USA) morePlot:
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 synopsisAwards:
4 wins & 3 nominations moreUser Comments:
Pure Pathos! moreCast
(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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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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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.