Intensive Care

1982 · 80 min · Comedy, Drama, TV Movie

When Denis Midgley's father is rushed to hospital, Midgley drops everything to be by his side. They've never really got on, so Midgley wants to be sure he's there if his father ever regains consciousness. As he hates his job as a schoolteacher, and his home-life with his wife, her senile mother and their insolent teenage son, he has no qualms about lingering around the hospital. But as days turn into weeks, his father obstinately refuses to 'slip away', and Denis' motivation for staying by his father's bedside has more and more to do with Valery, a young nurse.

Director: Gavin Millar
Writer: Alan Bennett
Released: November 9, 1982
Language: English

Cast

Alan Bennett
Denis Midgley
Thora Hird
Aunty Kitty
Helen Fraser
Joyce Midgley
Julie Walters
Valery
David Major
Colin Midgley
Elizabeth Spriggs
Alice Duckworth
Frank Crompton
Frank Midgley
Kirk Wild
Denis as a Boy
Alison Lloyd
Denis' Mother
Jeanne Doree
Joyce's Mother
Derek Fowlds
Hartley
Colin Douglas
Uncle Ernest

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