Imelda Staunton and Celia Imrie play sisters forced to live under the same roof in a feelgood but frustrating comedyHere’s another gentle golden-years Britcom approximately feisty bus-pass recipients sticking two fingers up at pompous types of all ages: a Werther’s Unoriginal. The Marigold Hotel cast headed off for India; this film is set mostly in overcast Britain but our heroes here get a weekend break in Rome.
The lineup is worthy. Imelda Staunton plays Sandra,a woman who has suppressed her natural joie de vivre for a lifetime to be married to complacent police chief Mike (John Sessions). When that marriage hits the buffers, Sandra has to go and live with her hippyish, or leftish sister Bif (Celia Imrie). Gradually she learns to be less uptight,less aroused. She even goes along to Bif’s dance club and remembers that she herself used to be a bit of a mover – and finds herself falling for affable Charlie, played by Timothy Spall.
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Source: guardian.co.uk