Your sweet grandma is about to rob a bank. No, really.
Neglected by her family, kept apart from her grandchildren, desperately short of money, Bea begins to gamble - at first for small stakes, but ultimately for the highest stake of all: revenge for the past.
Acting
Joan Hickson transforms frailty into something terrifyingly resolute.
Writing
55 minutes of economic storytelling with zero fat.
Direction
Goddard makes domestic spaces feel like pressure cookers.
Director
Chris Goddard
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Joan Hickson filmed this the same year she debuted as Miss Marple — two radically different elderly British women who weaponise invisibility.
A Thatcher-era time capsule: the pensioner as forgotten casualty of economic individualism, years before anyone used the phrase 'cost of living crisis'.
GB
