Intensive Care (1982)

9.0/10 • 80 min • Comedy Drama TV Movie

Overview

When Denis Midgley's father is rushed to hospital, Midgley drops everything to be by his side. They've never really got on, so Midgley wants to be sure he's there if his father ever regains consciousness. As he hates his job as a schoolteacher, and his home-life with his wife, her senile mother and their insolent teenage son, he has no qualms about lingering around the hospital. But as days turn into weeks, his father obstinately refuses to 'slip away', and Denis' motivation for staying by his father's bedside has more and more to do with Valery, a young nurse.

Cast

Alan Bennett

Thora Hird

Helen Fraser

Julie Walters

Elizabeth Spriggs

Alice Duckworth

Derek Fowlds

Colin Douglas

Joan Sanderson

Jim Broadbent

Aubrey Morris

Madge Hindle

Jean

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