Slice-of-life look at a sweet working-class couple in London, Shirley and Cyril, his mother, who's aging quickly and becoming forgetful, mum's ghastly upper-middle-class neighbors, and Cyril's pretentious sister and philandering husband. Shirley wants a baby, but Cyril, who reads Marx and wants the world to be perfect, is reluctant. Cyril's mum locks herself out and must ask her snooty neighbors for help. Then Cyril's sister Valerie stages a surprise party for mum's 70th birthday, a disaster from start to finish. Shirley holds things together, and she and Cyril may put aside her Dutch cap after all.
Phil Davis
as Cyril Bender
Ruth Sheen
as Shirley
Edna Doré
as Mrs Bender
Philip Jackson
as Martin Burke
Heather Tobias
as Valerie
Lesley Manville
as Lætitia Boothe-Brain
David Bamber
as Rupert Boothe-Brain
Cheryl Prime
as Martin's Girlfriend
Judith Scott
as Suzi
Jason Watkins
as Wayne
Diane-Louise Jordan
as Chemist Shop Assistant
Linda Beckett
as Receptionist
