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.
Directed by Gavin Millar
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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

Joan Sanderson
Miss Tunstall

Jim Broadbent
Mr Horsfall
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