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Unexpected events occur when Pat, a glamorous British-born star of American soaps, returns home to plug her auto-biography on television and meets, for the first time since they were teenagers, Margaret her plain and frumpy younger sister. The meeting is painful for both women highlighting the vast differences in their lives and resurrecting painful memories of their unhappy childhood with an uncaring, errant mother. The tabloid press smell a juicy story and a race ensues to trace the whereabouts of the long lost parent.Read moreLess
Unexpected events occur when Pat, a glamorous British-born star of American soaps, returns home to plug her auto-biography on television and meets, for the first time since they were teenagers, Margaret her plain and frumpy younger sister. The meeting is painful for both women highlighting the vast differences in their lives and resurrecting painful memories of their unhappy childhood with an uncaring, errant mother. The tabloid press smell a juicy story and a race ensues to trace the whereabouts of the long lost parent.
The story
Unexpected events occur when Pat, a glamorous British-born star of American soaps, returns home to plug her auto-biography on television and meets, for the first time since they were teenagers, Margaret her plain and frumpy younger sister. The meeting is painful for both women highlighting the vast differences in their lives and resurrecting painful memories of their unhappy childhood with an uncaring, errant mother. The tabloid press smell a juicy story and a race ensues to trace the whereabouts of the long lost parent.
Cast & crew
Victoria WoodMargaret
Julie Walters
Celia ImrieClaire
Duncan Preston
Thora HirdJim's Mother
Deborah GrantStella
Don HendersonBilly
Shirley StelfoxVera
Anne ReidMaeve
Julie HesmondhalghHelper in Old Age Home
Angela CurranLady in Motel
Madge HindleLady in MotelExplore the crew
- Director
- Gavin Millar
- Producer
- Ruth Caleb
- Screenplay
- Victoria Wood
- Editor
- Ken Pearce
- Director of Photography
- John Daly
- Original Music Composer
- Colin Towns
- Writer
- Victoria Wood