The Spongers

Drama · 1978

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.

Starring

Christine Hargreaves, Roland Joffé, Tony Garnett, Bernard Hill, Bill Shapter, Peter Kerrigan, Jim Allen, Paula McDonagh, Gary Todd, Nat Crosby

Director

Roland Joffé