Hay Fever

TV Movie
1984
1h 31m

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It is a warm Saturday afternoon in Cookham. The Bliss family is settling down to a quiet weekend. It is a weekend which turns out to be anything but quiet.It is a warm Saturday afternoon in Cookham. The Bliss family is settling down to a quiet weekend. It is a weekend which turns out to be anything but quiet.It is a warm Saturday afternoon in Cookham. The Bliss family is settling down to a quiet weekend. It is a weekend which turns out to be anything but quiet.

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7.8/10

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This movie was made after Penelope Keith had had a big hit in the West End production, though the supporting cast here is different.

Quotes
Judith Bliss: Anyone would think I was 80 the way you go on. It was a great mistake not sending you to boarding schools, and you coming back, and me being your elder sister.
Simon Bliss: Wouldn't have been any use darling; everyone knows we're your son and daughter.
Judith Bliss: Only because I was stupid enough to dandle you about in front of cameras when you were little. I knew I should regret it.
Simon Bliss: I don't see any point in trying to be younger than you are.
Judith Bliss: At your age, dear, it would be indecent if you did.

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Featured in Penelope Keith: From Margo to the Manor Born (2022)

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7/10

awkward situations at a high-society get-together

Another play-based show from BBC Television on the Noel Coward Collection, this one has been remade and broadcast several times in the UK and in the US over the years. This one opens with the Bliss family bickering about where their various invited guests will all sleep. The young flapper-wanna-be daughter Sorel (Phoebe Nicholls) and selfish Simon (Michael Siberry) are the children of Judith (Penelope Keith) and David (Paul Eddington). Joan Sims is Clara, the maid, who must deal with all this confusion. Of course, everything goes wrong, and awkward situations abound at a high-society party, Coward's specialty. This was the final film directed by Cedric Messina, who was also the producer.