Pat and Margaret
Pat and Margaret
Release: 1994-09-11
·Runtime: 84m
·★ 7.5
Drama
Comedy
TV Movie
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.
Production Countries
United Kingdom
Production Companies
BBC
Cast
Philip Lowrie
as Martin - Warm Up Man
Gemma Wardle
as Emma Louise
Shirley Stelfox
as Vera
Helen Lindsay
as Fan
Madge Hindle
as Lady in Motel
Duncan Preston
as Jim
Roger Brierley
as Hotel Manager
Victoria Wood
as Margaret
Don Henderson
as Billy
Tenniel Evans
as Mr Lloyd
Julie Walters
as Pat
Celia Imrie
as Claire
Thora Hird
as Jim's Mother
Deborah Grant
as Stella
Anne Reid
as Maeve
Julie Hesmondhalgh
as Helper in Old Age Home
Angela Curran
as Lady in Motel