Rolling Home

Story

Synopsis

Mr Wyman is an elderly man whose increasingly unreliable memory has landed him in a geriatric ward. Here he is visited by his daughters Val and Molly, and Molly's husband Harold, and looked after by the ward's two male nurses, Vic and Donald, who are in competition for a promotion. Donald needs the money as he and his girlfriend are trying to buy a house but are having difficulty arranging a mortgage. From the window at which he sits, Mr Wyman can see a wall. He repeatedly pesters Donald with questions about what is on the other side. Donald constructs a fantasy of the future he dreams of with his girlfriend: a house and garden inhabited by a married couple.

Director

Piers Haggard

Writers

Alan Bennett

Language

English

Release date

3 December 1982

Ensemble

Cast

• 

  John Barrett

  Mr. Wyman

• 

  David Threlfall

  Donald

• 

  Maureen Lipman

  Val

• 

  Bernard Gallagher

  Harold

• David Foxxe

  Vic

• Jeanne Doree

  Alice

• 

  Pat Heywood

  Molly

• 

  Anna Quayle

  Pam

• Isabelle Lucas

  Matron

• Leslie Pitt

  Mr Metcalf

• Charles Simon

  Ernest

• Molly Veness

  Hannah