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Director: Bryan Forbes
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From Time Out Film Guide
Forbes' ambitious but finally unsuccessful adaptation of Robert Nicolson's novel about an old working class woman, abandoned in her impoverished flat, who retreats into paranoid delusions of faded grandeur. Dame Edith Evans gives a spirited performance in the central role, but Forbes' direction is typically over-emphatic and obvious, underlining the social conscience of the film ad nauseam, and even putting its message into the mouth of a social worker (who asks a psychiatrist if the old lady wasn't happier with her illusions than with society's attempts to cure them). Forbes' daughter Sarah appears as the old lady when she was a child.Author: DP
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- Posted on Jan 20 2008 20:06 Absorbing, although rambling at times, going off in some odd directions, but a fascinating sight of an elderly Dame Edith Evans out perfoming everybody. Very much a period piece.
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Cast & crew
Director: Bryan Forbes
Producer: Michael Laughlin, Ronald Shedlo
Cast: Edith Evans, Eric Portman, Avis Bunnage, Nanette Newman, Gerald Sim, Ronald Fraser, Leonard Rossiter, Kenneth Griffith full cast
Duration: 106 mins
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