The Spongers
Release Date: 1978-01-24
Rating : 0/10
Duration : 104 minutes
Genres : Drama, TV Movie
Director : Roland Joffé
Writer : Jim Allen
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.
Cast
Christine Hargreaves
Bernard Hill
Peter Kerrigan
Paula McDonagh
Gary Todd
Grace Allen