The screenplay of Victoria Wood's first full-length film. Pat and Margaret are sisters, and 20 years ago Pat ran away to Hollywood and became a star, while Margaret remained at home and became a waitress in a motorway cafe. On tour to promote her new book, Pat is suddenly reunited with her sister. 'The most impressive thing that Wood has written.' Time Out
Description: Unexpected events occur over a long weekend when Pat, a glamorous British born star of American soaps, returns home to plug her autobiography on television and meets, for the first time since they were teenagers, Margaret her plain, fat and frumpy younger sister. The meeting is painful for both sisters highlighting the vast differences in their lives and resurrecting painful memories of their unhappy childhood with their uncaring mother. The tabloid press smell a juicy story and a race ensues to trace the current whereabouts of the long lost errant mother... ( Written by Mark Smith )