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.
- Released
- 1983-10-02
- Genres
- Romance, TV Movie
- Runtime
- 51 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Alvin Rakoff
Cast
- Fiona Shaw as Elspeth
- Barbara Leigh-Hunt as Mrs. Erskine
- Robert Addie as Larry
- Simon Cowell-Parker as Colin
- Katy Durham-Matthews as Young Elspeth
- Richard Garnett as Robert
- Joanne Good as Sarah
- Randal Herley as Uncle Arthur
- Dione Inman as Daphne
- Pauline Jefferson as Mrs. Cox
- Sheila Keith as Mrs. Bannerman
- David Langton as Mr. Erskine