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Interview Day

Original title: Eskimo Day
  • TV Movie
  • 19961996
  • 1h 25m
IMDb RATING
7.7/10
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Interview Day (1996)
ComedyDrama
Comedy drama about the trials and tribulations of three sets of parents as they finally realise that their children have grown up and reluctantly they have to let them enroll at Cambridge Un... Read allComedy drama about the trials and tribulations of three sets of parents as they finally realise that their children have grown up and reluctantly they have to let them enroll at Cambridge University.Comedy drama about the trials and tribulations of three sets of parents as they finally realise that their children have grown up and reluctantly they have to let them enroll at Cambridge University.
IMDb RATING
7.7/10
187
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    • Piers Haggard
    • Jack Rosenthal
  • Stars
    • Maureen Lipman
    • David Ross
    • Benedict Sandiford
    • Piers Haggard
    • Jack Rosenthal
  • Stars
    • Maureen Lipman
    • David Ross
    • Benedict Sandiford
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    • 4User reviews
    • 1Critic review
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    Maureen Lipman
    Maureen Lipman
    • Shani Whittle
    David Ross
    • Bevis
    Benedict Sandiford
    Benedict Sandiford
    • Neil
    Tom Wilkinson
    Tom Wilkinson
    • Hugh
    Anna Carteret
    Anna Carteret
    • Harriet
    Laura Howard
    Laura Howard
    • Pippa
    Alec Guinness
    Alec Guinness
    • James
    James Fleet
    James Fleet
    • Simon
    Kathryn Pogson
    Kathryn Pogson
    • Malcolm's mum
    Grant Warnock
    • Malcolm
    Laurie Ventry
    • Rosemary's dad
    Kathy Kiera Clarke
    Kathy Kiera Clarke
    • Rosemary
    Susannah Wise
    Susannah Wise
    • Miss Wilding
    Lila Kaye
    Lila Kaye
    • Mother Polly
    Pippa Hinchley
    Pippa Hinchley
    • Bobbie the waitress
    Cheryl Fergison
    • Miss Bodley (Bells)
    Gillian Barge
    Gillian Barge
    • Madam Olga
    Tom Bowles
    • London Coach Driver
      • Piers Haggard
      • Jack Rosenthal
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    • Trivia
      This was Sir Alec Guinness's final acting role before his death on August 2, 2000, at the age of eighty-six.
    • Quotes

      [talking about how she feels now that Neil has gone to university]

      Shani Whittle: [tearfully] It's Eskimos, isn't it, that when they get old and no use to no-one no more, they just quietly sling their hooks and toddle off into the snow - for good. And their kids don't much bother because they're all too busy catching fish in holes and hoovering their igloos, and life goes on. Well, *theirs* does. Not the poor old useless bugger lying in the snow.

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    10/10
    Well made, well written, poignant comedy drama
    This is a superbly written and acted comedy drama about the emotional trials and strains on a family as the eldest children go through the University applications process. It focuses particularly on the mothers role in the family, and how she fears she will become redundant after the children leave. (The title refers to an ancient Eskimo practise whereby when the children leave, the mother sees her role as being finished and she just walks out into the snow to die.)

    We follow three prospective students through their interview days at Cambridge university, and the relationships they strike up with each other - and how the families react to this as well; a major part of this is the reaction of the rather more 'well-bred' girl's family to the unstated suggestion that she has fallen for the boy from the more 'normal' family.

    The plot is very simple, and is really secondary to the superb acting and exploration of the emotions experienced by the families.

    It was a particularly poignant drama for me, as it was screened just at the time I was going through exactly the same thing. It pressed all the right emotional buttons, and Maureen Lipman's role as the overworried mother is superbly well played. I'm not sure if it's possible to get hold of this film any more (as it was only screened as a TV movie) but it's definitely well worth seeing if you can. See also the follow-up, Cold Enough for Snow.
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    • Release date
      • May 28, 1996 (United States)
      • United Kingdom
      • PBS (United States)
      • English
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      • Blackburn, Lancashire, England, UK
    • Production companies
      • Greenpoint Films
      • British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
      • WGBH
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    • 1 hour 25 minutes
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