The Spongers
Directed by Roland Joffé
Plot
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.
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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
Bernard Atha
Councillor Conway
Fred Pearson
Director of Social Services
Ina Clough
Deputy Director of Social Services
Donald Gee
Dr Whitehead
Roger Sloman
Presenting Officer at Tribunal