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| Maureen Lipman | ... | Shani Whittle | |
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David Ross | ... | Bevis |
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Benedict Sandiford | ... | Neil |
| Tom Wilkinson | ... | Hugh | |
| Anna Carteret | ... | Harriet | |
| Laura Howard | ... | Pippa | |
| Alec Guinness | ... | James | |
| James Fleet | ... | Simon | |
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Kathryn Pogson | ... | Malcolm's mum |
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Grant Warnock | ... | Malcolm |
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Laurie Ventry | ... | Rosemary's dad |
| Kathy Kiera Clarke | ... | Rosemary | |
| Susannah Wise | ... | Miss Wilding | |
| Lila Kaye | ... | Mother Polly | |
| Pippa Hinchley | ... | Bobbie the waitress | |
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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. Written by Jonathan Broxton <j.w.broxton@sheffield.ac.uk>
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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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This was Sir Alec Guinness's final acting role before his death on August 2, 2000, at the age of eighty-six. See more »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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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.