Margaret is a shy, pale, middle-class Englishwoman who is reluctantly engaged to her older, twittish neighbor Syl. Both bride- and groom-to-be still live with their mothers in the humdrum suburb of Croydon. However Margaret has been acting strangely ever since a vacation in Egypt, where she stayed with her mother's friend Marie-Claire. She secretly despises Syl, but does not resist when her mother, who has repressed the failure of her own matrimony, insists on marriage for the sake of social convention.
Waris Hussein
Norma Heyman
Martin Sherman
Rex Maidment
Jeanne Moreau
Lili
Joan Plowright
Mrs. Monro
Julie Walters
Monica
Lena Headey
Margaret
David Threlfall
Syl
Maggie Steed
Mrs Raffald
John Wood
Robert
Gwyneth Strong
Cynthia
Roger Lloyd Pack
Derek
Catherine Schell
Marie-Claire
Tommy Duggan
Father O'Flynn
Britta Smith
Mother Joseph
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CinemaSerf
Waris Hussein was an accomplished director so perhaps all he had to do for Jeanne Moreau, Joan Plowright and Julie Walters to turn up here was offer them an opportunity to sit around reminiscing whilst necking copious amounts of booze. For that, folks, is just about all that happens in this drama th...
Clothes in the Wardrobe
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