Mrs Caldicot's Cabbage War (2002)iMDB Rating: 6.4
Date Released : 31 January 2003
Genre : Comedy
Stars : Pauline Collins, Peter Capaldi, Anna Wilson-Jones, Gwenllian Davies
Movie Quality : BRrip
Format : MKV
Size : 870 MB
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Not so aged widow Thelma Caldicot is coerced into a resthome by her manipulative son and daughter-in-law after the death of her bullying husband. Apathy turns to anger and then action as the medication is discarded and Thelma discovers her mettle. She and her aged cohorts stage a rebellion but the result is something nobody envisaged.
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Pauline Collins, who shone so brightly in Shirley Valentine, fails to rescue this lamely scripted and poorly acted British comedy. The plot concerns Mrs Caldicot, a widow who is tricked out of her house and into a retirement home, where she is sedated and forced to sign over her property to her son.
She soon realises that she and her fellow residents, who are also sedated to keep them quiet, are being treated unfairly and foments a rebellion against the home's smarmy manager.
But this comedic take on One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is mired in pantomime-quality acting and naive plotting in which old people are never disorientated or distressed, and journalists pay for scores of pensioners to be put up in a country house hotel.
I have no idea what Vernon Coleman's novel was like, but it is unlikely that the set decorator who adapted it made many improvements.
It made just £16,400 at the British box office. I would be surprised if most of those who parted with their money did not ask for it back.
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