Margery and Gladys ( Margery & Gladys )

Margery and Gladys (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Margery & Gladys
Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
Australia ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
98 min

Aspect Ratio:
Anamorphic Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Anamorphic Widescreen
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 2003 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Geoffrey Sax

Written By:
John Flanagan
Andrew McCulloch

Actors:
Penelope Keith ..... Margery Heywood
June Brown ..... Gladys Gladwell
Alan David ..... Gordon Thompson
Marcia Warren ..... Jean Thompson
Matthew Lockwood ..... Scott Wilkins
Tilly Vosburgh ..... Mrs. Wilkins
Roger Lloyd-Pack ..... D.I. Woolley
Martin Freeman ..... D.S. Stringer
Adam Godley ..... Graham Heywood
Peter Vaughan ..... Troy Gladwell
Heather Tobias ..... Mrs. Hewlett
Ken Morley ..... Bill Nightingale
Kulvinder Ghir ..... Mr. Singh
Ivana Basic ..... Nina Kovacs
Diane Beck ..... Hotel Receptionist

Synopsis:

When wealthy recently-widowed suburban housewife, Margery and her rough diamond of a cleaner, Gladys, disturb a house burglar, they knock him unconscious, panic and leave him for dead, fleeing in the cleaners wrecked old car. What follows is a comedy of misunderstandings in which these two very different, mature ladies are led on an unfortunate series of incidents which snowballs into a crime spree. They prove to be more than a match for the unlikely pair of policemen, DI Woolley and DS Stringer, who are left to solve the ladies disappearance and puzzling string of crimes which follow. As the police net tightens around them, the two very different, mature ladies are propelled on a shared voyage of self-discovery as skeletons fall from the closets forcing both women to reflect on their past lives.

Recently-widowed Margery Heywood (Penelope Keith) and her cleaning woman Gladys Gladwell (June Brown) disturb a would-be burglar breaking into Margery's house in Kent. Margery attacks the burglar with a heavy glass vase, and knocks him unconscious. Believing that she has killed him, she panics and flees the house with Gladys, leaving behind her handbag. In Gladys's car, the two women decide to try to reach Margery's son Graham in Milton Keynes, hoping he'll give them shelter and money, but the trip turns into a comedy of disasters. They are forced to break into a pharmacy to obtain insulin for Gladys's diabetes, 'do a runner' from a petrol station and dodge police cameras on the M25. Margery is devastated to learn of a twenty-year affair between her late husband and Gladys - and that her son knew of it. His father also secretly bought a boat and planned to sail away with a childhood friend. With the police, led by about-to-retire D I Woolley (Roger Lloyd Pack) on their trail, the two women drive to Fleetwood, only to meet the childhood friend. The boat, it seems, was purchased with stolen money. After a night on the town at nearby Blackpool, the two women take the boat and sail off to the Caribbean.

Staid suburban housewife Margery goes on the run with her cleaning lady Gladys after having attacked an intruder in her home and left him for dead.

This product was added to our catalog on Thursday 16 August, 2012.

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