Mrs Caldicot’s Cabbage War

★★★ COMEDY A likeable, enjoyable film with Pauline Collins as a widow consigned to a grim OAPS’ home, where she starts a pensioners’ rebellion. The comedy’s broad but entertaining and the film’s message about the need for dignity in older age is powerfully expressed. Collins’ real-life husband John Alderton plays the home’s stuck-up manager. Dir: Ian Sharp 2002, 12, 140min