The Spongers 1978
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In the days leading up the Queen's Silver Jubilee, Pauline, a recently separated single mother, receives a visit from a bailiff and is given 15 days to address her overdue rent payments. Meanwhile, the local council is under pressure to cut expenditure, and their decisions result in Pauline's mentally handicapped daughter Paula being transferred from a care home for special needs children to an old people's home, where she is all alone.
- Released: 1978-01-24
- Runtime: 104 minutes
- Genre: Drama, TV Movie
- Stars: Christine Hargreaves, Bernard Hill, Peter Kerrigan, Paula McDonagh, Gary Todd
- Director: Roland Joffé, Jim Allen, Tony Garnett, Nat Crosby, Bill Shapter
