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Housewife, 49

Country: United Kingdom, Language: English, 93 mins

  • Director: Gavin Millar
  • Writer: Victoria Wood, Nella Last
  • Producer: Michele Buck, Matthew Hamilton, Ian Luxford, Damien Timmer, Piers Wenger, Victoria Wood

CGiii Comment

"In wartime, an ordinary woman finds new courage."

In the late 1930s Nella Last, a housewife aged 49, living in Barrow-in-Furness on the North West English coast, agrees to send details of her routine to the Mass observation project, a non-governmental scheme designed to chronicle the lives of ordinary people. When war comes Nella defies her over-protective husband to join the local Women's Voluntary Service. Initially diffident she blossoms thanks to the dominant but kindly Mrs. Waite, and enjoys her independence as a useful war worker. The film also shows her relationship with her two sons as well as the effect of the war on the community and ends by explaining that Nella kept in touch with the Mass Observation project until her death in 1968.


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Cast & Characters

Victoria Wood (as Nella Last)
David Threlfall (as Daddy (Will Last))
Christopher Harper (as Cliff Last)
Ben Crompton (as Arthur Last)
Lorraine Ashbourne (as Dot)
Sally Bankes (as Mrs Whittaker)
Stephanie Cole (as Mrs Waite)
Marcia Warren (as Mrs Lord)
Sylvestra Le Touzel (as Mrs Lynch)
Wendy Nottingham (as Miss Finch)
Jane Lowe (as Mrs Higham)
Dorothy Atkinson (as Mrs Mac)
Sian Brooke (as Evelyn Edwards (as Siân Brooke))
Laura Power (as Madeleine Whittaker)
Jason Watkins (as Dr Roger Brierley)
Daisy Haggard (as Jill)
Clare Wille (as Pru)
Alan Cox (as Dennis)
Hugh Sachs (as Godfrey)
Georgie Glen (as Mrs Hockey)
Samuel Roukin (as Michael Hockey)
Duncan Barton (as Robbie Kilgour)
Olwen May (as Mrs Brierley)
Catherine Skinner (as Edith)
Sue Wallace (as Woman at WVS)