Fireworks for Elspeth (1983)
Will they starve her? Shave her head? Force her to wear a hair shirt? Elspeth's friends and family react with horror, grief and even derision to her desire to become a nun. She experiences her parents' hurt, her fiancee's feeling of betrayal, her friends' incomprehension - and her own obstinate joy.
- Date of release
- 1983-10-02
- Runtime
- 51m
- Genres
- Romance, TV Movie
- Director
- Alvin Rakoff
Casting
- Fiona Shaw — Elspeth
- Barbara Leigh-Hunt — Mrs. Erskine
- Robert Addie — Larry
- Simon Cowell-Parker — Colin
- Katy Durham-Matthews — Young Elspeth
- Richard Garnett — Robert
- Joanne Good — Sarah
- Randal Herley — Uncle Arthur
- Dione Inman — Daphne
- Pauline Jefferson — Mrs. Cox
- Sheila Keith — Mrs. Bannerman
- David Langton — Mr. Erskine
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