Fireworks for Elspeth (1983)
Director: Alvin Rakoff
Language: en
Will they starve her? Shave her head? Force her to wear a hair shirt? Elspeth's friends and family react with horror, grief and even derision to her desire to become a nun. She experiences her parents' hurt, her fiancee's feeling of betrayal, her friends' incomprehension - and her own obstinate joy.
Cast
Fiona Shaw
Elspeth
Barbara Leigh-Hunt
Mrs. Erskine
Robert Addie
Larry
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Simon Cowell-Parker
Colin
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Katy Durham-Matthews
Young Elspeth
Richard Garnett
Robert
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Joanne Good
Sarah
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Randal Herley
Uncle Arthur
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Dione Inman
Daphne
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Pauline Jefferson
Mrs. Cox
Sheila Keith
Mrs. Bannerman
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David Langton
Mr. Erskine
Eve Matheson
Girl at Pool
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Donald Morley
Mr. Buldock
Eileen Page
Reverend Mother