poster movie

The Spongers

10 average rating
★★★★★
10
English / 104 MIN. / 1978

The Genres

The Synopsis

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.

The Cast

Christine HargreavesBernard HillPeter KerriganPaula McDonaghGary ToddGrace AllenDawn BoothAngela CatherallGertie AlmondElaine LindsayBernard AthaFred PearsonIna CloughDonald GeeRoger SlomanFrances CoxJosephine AntoszLesley NightingaleMarion ShakespeareAnn Haydn-EdwardsAnn ArisLen AnnettJoanna ClayEileen BeldonKen RoseGwen HarrisJoe KenyonBarry HartJohnny AllanJack PlattsAnthony DuttonPeter EllisDavid HattonYvonne NicholsonJoan PetersFred GauntPeter LawrencePhil KernotGwyll WilliamsJohnny HackettTed CarrollEmrys EvansBill MooresMick MillerStuart Lee

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