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After her husband's death, A woman starts looking for independence.
Mrs Caldicot's Cabbage War
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Mrs Caldicots Cabbage War
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30 Jan 2003
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Miserable Henry Caldicot makes his wife Thelma's life a misery until he gets dispatched to the next world with a cricket ball between the eyes.
Thelma (Pauline Collins, Shirley Valentine a couple of decades on) gets shunted off to a nursing home by her calculating son (Peter Capaldi), where the residents are fed a diet of cabbage.
Henry can't even take his wife to Torquay yet when he's dead she realises 'boring Victor' at the club is actually well-spoken mature blonde Victoria (Wanda Ventham).
Unsurprisingly Thelma is far from resigned to 'go gently into the good night' and leads a nursing room revolt. Good cast including Selina Cadell, Paul Freeman, and John Alderton make this a pleasure to watch, and an entertaining 100 or so minutes.
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A rather charming film following the antics of one Mrs Caldicot as she partakes in a war against the workers at her care home. While portrayed as a light hearted fun film it is in fact quite dark with under trained nurses dosing up geriatrics with drugs to make them more pliable so costs can be kept down and an ungrateful son physically drugging up his mother to sell her property for development...but I can look past that, mainly because I thought this film was a fantastic bit of family fun. Peter Capaldi plays Derek Mrs Caldicot's ungrateful and manipulated son trying to keep his wife so puts his mother in a rather vile caring home making her sign a…
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what a very odd film this is. for a start it's weirdly ageless - it's obviously aiming for some kind of vintage fifties or sixties british comedy heyday atmosphere, but it's shot so artlessly it's like an extended episode of a british sitcom ("waiting for god" obviously springs to mind). it's also bizarrely completely, joyously unbothered by the modern world - martin jarvis (as the villain, which tells you something immediately) uses a laptop in one scene but it's a weird, tiny, blocky thing as if no one who made it *really* knew what such a thing was. the cast is a treat for a certain kind of british television fan (at one point, there was a scene where a…
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we thought this was going to be a lighthearted comedy about horticulturalists but no, elder abuse it is. this is mine and olive’s avengers: jackie and 12 from doctor who, shirley valentine, MISS HOOLIE, madge from benidorm. i got this on dvd from a chazza in scarborough that had never left it’s plastic wrapping, i’m glad i can give it a home on my dvd pile among the other incarnations of the great escape (1963) and one flew over the cookoo’s nest (1975). silly silly silly
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I’m going to eat more healthily from now on so that I extend by the few hours I wasted watching this terrible film.
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Death comes for us all, and I really wish it'd hurry up so I don't have to finish Mrs Caldicot's Cabbage War.