When her TV star husband Alex decides to divorce her so that he can start a career in politics, newly single mother Maddy goes shoplifting and ends up in jail. Losing custody of her infant child, Maddy hatches a scheme to break out of prison with the assistance of her friend Gillian, who's avoiding the law herself for credit card fraud. Now Maddy has to find the couple who have adopted her son and avoid falling in love with selfish Alex all over again.
Acting
Lumley steals every scene with effortless aristocratic criminality.
Direction
Sugarman's music video energy collides with farce structure.
Costume
Prison jumpsuits and bad 90s power suits as character study.
Director
Sara Sugarman
Anna Friel
Maddy
Joanna Lumley
Gillian
Anna Massey
Dwina Phelps
Phyllida Law
Lady Drake (Alex's Mother)
Greg Wise
Alex
Elizabeth Berrington
Pru
Omid Djalili
George
John Standing
Politician
Nicholas Woodeson
Detective Slynne
Judy Cornwell
Maddy’s Mother
Prunella Scales
Dr. Minny Stinkler
Neil Stuke
Desk Sergeant
Eddie Marsan
Constable
Hermione Norris
Petronella
David Ryall
Man outside Harrods
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Sara Sugarman made her feature debut here after music videos for Björk and Tom Jones.
This bombed so hard it barely released in the US, becoming a cult curiosity for Anna Friel completists and British TV movie archaeologists.
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