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The Spongers (1978)
Directed by Roland Joffé
Overview
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.
Length 104 minutes
Actors
Christine Hargreaves | Bernard Hill | Peter Kerrigan | Paula McDonagh | Gary Todd | Grace Allen | Dawn Booth | Angela Catherall | Gertie Almond | Elaine Lindsay | Bernard Atha | Fred Pearson | Ina Clough | Donald Gee | Roger Sloman | Frances Cox | Josephine Antosz | Lesley Nightingale | Marion Shakespeare | Ann Haydn-Edwards | Ann Aris | Len Annett | Joanna Clay | Eileen Beldon | Ken Rose | Gwen Harris | Joe Kenyon | Barry Hart | Johnny Allen | Jack Platts | Anthony Dutton | Peter Ellis | David Hatton | Yvonne Nicholson | Joan Peters | Fred Gaunt | Peter Lawrence | Phil Kernot | Gwyll Williams | Johnny Hackett | Ted Carroll | Emrys Evans | Bill Moores | Mick Miller | Stuart Lee