Waiting for God

1990

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7.8| TV-PG| en| More Info
Released: 28 June 1990 Ended
Producted By: BBC
Country: United Kingdom
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0
Official Website: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00fznj3
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Refusing to succumb to old age, Tom Ballard and Diana Trent are a pair of seasoned delinquents that cause many headaches. Their uneasy alliance is destined to make life difficult at the Bayview Retirement Village.

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Comedy

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WillSushyMedia This movie was so-so. It had it's moments, but wasn't the greatest.
Ezmae Chang This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.
Quiet Muffin This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.
Logan By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.
selffamily I have been waiting for some time for this to appear on DVD and here it is. Loved it when it first appeared, like it even more now. Diana is a role model, ie just the sort of person I want to be when my children do what they threaten, and put me in a home, and Tom would be an irritating but useful companion. Our bodies may give out on us, but the brain does not always follow suit, and from this we get this glorious programme. Jane, the long suffering P.A. to the obnoxious Harvey Bains who is the only person to be fooled by his facade of niceness, tries so hard to bring Diana and Tom into some sort of religious salvation before its too late, and plays one of the best characters in the programme. Not to forget the randy little chap (Bas?) who has his own way of enduring old age, and Tom's poor son and his dreadful wife. Truly a TV sitcom of brilliance. More, please!
IridescentTranquility At the time of writing this, one of the satellite channels in Britain is showing Waiting For God again, and in one of the adverts for it, somebody mentions that what makes this so funny is the refusal of these older people in the Bayview Retirement Home to act like the stereotypical "old person". The characters are brilliant and strikingly diverse. Diana Trent, you can clearly see, has potential to cause anarchy in one of the places you'd least expect to find it - a group of apartments for retired older people in Bournemouth. One of my favourite moments is when she "summons" the manager Harvey Nigel Baines ("Jane, you're touching me") to her dinner table by means of hooking her walking stick round his neck and pulling him to the floor. How many stereotypical "old ladies" do that? Tom Ballard is great because you're never entirely sure if he's in full possession of his mental faculties or whether he's in another world entirely. Sometimes he's climbing Everest with Sir Edmund Hillary, sometimes he's having tea with Greta Garbo, and sometimes he seems completely normal. The residents of Bayview may be old enough to draw a pension, but otherwise they're still sharp enough and intelligent enough. The great thing about Waiting For God is that it shows that - even though they're sidelined by the rest of society - age cannot prevent these people (particularly the home's Casanova Basil) from living exactly as they have done for the first seventy-odd years of their lives.This was first shown when I was little and even fifteen years later it's still as good - if not better - than I remembered it at the time. One of the very endearing characters in this sitcom is Jane, probably best described as Harvey's secretary, who clearly has a massive and unrequited crush on him and - as the programme progresses - it's clear that one way or the other she will get Harvey, but the great thing about her is that she isn't a completely tragic figure. In spite of the fact that Harvey walks all over her and blatantly has no romantic interest in her whatsoever, she is determined to sabotage as many of his other "dates" (although they hardly have a chance to get that far) as she can.I don't know whether Waiting For God is on DVD but it certainly should be.
Syl One of the funniest shows to come out of England in the nineties, it has a terrific cast of veteran television and stage players. It's funny and timeless comedy with a bit of slapstick humor and a polished verbal English wit. The wonderful relationship between atheist feminist single Diana and the widowed Tom Ballard is fascinating to watch unlike most relationships, they get better when they're together than apart. Tom's boring son, Jeffrey, can bore anyone to death but he is in a marriage to unfaithful, drunk, and pill popper, Marion, who despises and resents Diana as a threat to their inheritance. The cast includes another heterosexual relationship between old maid plain Jane and the Bayview manager, Harvey Nigel Bains. Harvey constantly mistreats the wonderful sweet Jane. He doesn't know what he's got until he almost loses her. Three great love stories and romances in a wonderful sitcom. The wait is over.
HailMary "Waiting for God" takes place in the corners of the earth in the Bayview Retirement home. This program goes beyond the normal rules of the sitcom and instead takes television to a new level. This program brings a new light to the treatment of the elderly, religion, the meaning of life, and love. I have never seen such a good TV program, I doubt that I ever will again.