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The Spongers

01/24/1978

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1hr 44min

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Drama

,TV Movie

STORY

In the days leading up the Queen's Silver Jubilee, Pauline, a recently separated single mother, receives a visit from a bailiff and is given 15 days to address her overdue rent payments. Meanwhile, the local council is under pressure to cut expenditure, and their decisions result in Pauline's mentally handicapped daughter Paula being transferred from a care home for special needs children to an old people's home, where she is all alone.

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Christine Hargreaves
  • Bernard Hill
  • Peter Kerrigan
  • Paula McDonagh
  • Gary Todd

    Director

  • Roland Joffé

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • BBC

    Production Countries

  • United Kingdom

LANGUAGES

  • English

Cast

Christine Hargreaves

Pauline

Bernard Hill

Sullivan

Peter Kerrigan

Peter

Paula McDonagh

Paula

Gary Todd

Gary

Grace Allen

Grace

Dawn Booth

Baby Dawn

Angela Catherall

Jackie

Gertie Almond

Gertie

Elaine Lindsay

Mrs Johnson