Pat and Margaret (1994)

Recommended

UK

Television Film

Series Title: Screen One (1989-1994)

Director: Gavin Millar

Writer: Victoria Wood

Cinematographer: John Daly

Composer: Colin Towns

Cast: Victoria Wood, Julie Walters, Celia Imrie, Duncan Preston, Thora Hird, Don Henderson, Deborah Grant, Shirley Stelfox

Two sisters – one the biggest soap star on American television, and the other a motorway services restaurant worker – are reunited (thanks to a live television programme) after 27 years apart, a turn of events more welcomed by the latter than the former, who is not so keen on the idea of having her closets searched for skeletons, in Victoria Wood’s laugh-out-loud funny culture clash comedy, which features a number of excellent comic performances, though its various plot strands are, perhaps, resolved a little too tidily. Iain.Stott