Pat and Margaret (1994)

7.7/10 • 84 min • Drama Comedy TV Movie

Overview

Unexpected events occur when Pat, a glamorous British-born star of American soaps, returns home to plug her auto-biography on television and meets, for the first time since they were teenagers, Margaret her plain and frumpy younger sister. The meeting is painful for both women highlighting the vast differences in their lives and resurrecting painful memories of their unhappy childhood with an uncaring, errant mother. The tabloid press smell a juicy story and a race ensues to trace the whereabouts of the long lost parent.

Cast

Victoria Wood

Julie Walters

Celia Imrie

Duncan Preston

Thora Hird

Deborah Grant

Don Henderson

Shirley Stelfox

Anne Reid

Julie Hesmondhalgh

Helper in Old Age Home

Angela Curran

Madge Hindle

Lady in Motel

Philip Lowrie

Martin - Warm Up Man

Sue Wallace

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