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Making Waves

6.8198712mMovie

A group of elderly women go on vacation to the seaside. One of them takes her son along and constantly watches him saying he has a brain tumor. His problem is something else entirely.

DirectorJenny Wilkes
WritersJenny Wilkes·Clare Boylan

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Cast · Directed by Jenny Wilkes

SHSheila Hancock
Sheila Hancock
Doris
KCKenneth Cranham
Kenneth Cranham
Joe Nash
LKLila Kaye
Lila Kaye
Mrs Nash
MH
Maggie Holland
May
PKPat Keen
Pat Keen
Alice
TJ
Terry John
Hotel Manager

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