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Mrs Caldicot's Cabbage War
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Wikipedia article
'Mrs Caldicot's Cabbage War' is a 2002 British comedy-drama film 2002, directed by Ian Sharp and starring Pauline Collins, John Alderton and Peter Capaldi. It is based on a 1993 novel with the same name by author and conspiracy theorist Vernon Coleman.
It is the story about a woman, Thelma Caldicot, who is coerced by her manipulative son Derek and daughter-in-law to move into a run-down nursing home, owned by Derek's employer, after the death of her bullying husband. Derek also gets her to sign over her house to him. However, she doesn't like it at the nursing home and shows her frustration. After having been medicated by the staff to stay calm, she finally incites her fellow inmates to revolt.
The film premiered in June 2002 at the International Filmfest Emden,[https://www.imdb.com/event/ev0000222/2002 IMDb: 'Emden International Film Festival 2002'] Retrieved 2013-02-02 where it came second in the competition for the Bernhard Wicki Prize.[http://filmfest-emden.ictourismus.de/index.php?id=123&L=0 Filmfest Emden: 'Preistrger Bernhard Wicki Preis 2002'] Retrieved 2013-02-02 A few weeks later, it participated in the Moscow International Film Festival.[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0305847/releaseinfo IMDb: 'Release info - Mrs Caldicot's Cabbage War'] Retrieved 2013-02-02 The film had its first wide cinema release in United Kingdom and Ireland, where it opened on 31 January 2003.
Cast
* Pauline Collins as Thelma Caldicot
* Terence Rigby as Henry Caldicot
* Peter Capaldi as Derek
* Anna Wilson-Jones as Veronica
* Gwenllian Davies as Audrey
* Sheila Reid as Joyce
* Frank Mills as Leslie
* Frank Middlemass as Bernard
* John Alderton as Hawksmoor
* Isla Blair as Matron
* Angela Bruce as Gina
* Paul Freeman as Jenkins
* Martin Jarvis as JB
* Tony Robinson as Nick Reid
* Camille Coduri as news journalist
Reception
BBC Films awarded the film a 1 star review, reporting that the film was 'Lacking in laughs and light on radical zeal, this is the kind of unambitious British cinema that should have been pensioned off a long time ago.'
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