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The Spy Who Caught a Cold

5.4199511mMovieDrama

Ten-year-old Clossie is having the worst holiday of her life – dragged to a seaside naturist resort by her fun-loving single mother. When Mum starts flirting with a fishmonger called Nick, there’s nothing for it but her to tail them with…

DirectorPhilippa Lowthorpe
WriterLucy Ellmann
ProducersAnne-Marie Casey·Jane Wellesley

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Cast · Directed by Philippa Lowthorpe

LNLesley Nightingale
Lesley Nightingale
Mum
JLJames Larkin
James Larkin
Nick
IN
Isabella Nightingale
Clossie
ACAnne-Marie Casey
Anne-Marie Casey

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