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Director: Gareth Gwenlan
Actors: Stphanie Cole, Graham Crowden, Daniel Hill
Studio: BBC Warner
Category: DVD

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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars

49 reviews
Sales Rank: 7538

Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dvd-video, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 205
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6

MPN: E2563
UPC: 794051256324
EAN: 0794051256324
ASIN: B000EOTUTE

Release Date: June 13, 2006
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Editorial Reviews:

Product Description
At the Bayview Retirement Village the elderly are expected to grow old gracefully enjoying their final years in peace quiet and comfort... but not if Tom (Graham Crowden) and Diana (Stephanie Cole) have anything to do with it! Meet two elderly eccentrics who refuse to put up with the appalling food and condescending staff in the hilariously cynical BAFTA-nominated comedy that won Stephanie Cole a British Comedy Award in 1992.Running Time: 210 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: COMEDY UPC: 794051256324 Manufacturer No: E2563

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It's strange that a British comedy series in the tradition of Monty Python and Mr. Bean would sit fifteen years before being released on DVD. However, Waiting for God's humor has less slapstick mixed in with its dark, dry wit, making its style uniquely relevant to facing old age and death. The first seven episodes are collected on this disc: Welcome to Bayview, A Trip to Brighton, Cheering Up Tom, The Christening, Fraulein Mueller, The Psychiatrist, and The Helicopter. In each, elderly citizen Tom Ballard (Graham Crowden) and his grumpy spinster friend, Diana Trent (Stephanie Cole) overcome boredom and malaise within Bayview Retirement Village, having some adventures outside its confines (like when they drive a Porsche to Brighton in "A Trip to Brighton"), but mostly relying on conversation to entertain themselves. Waiting for God exemplifies smart writing paired with solid acting, since there is little dramatic action to distract from its premise. As a result, Tom and Diana's characters have well-rendered personalities, making their conversations pleasantly predictable. Tom always fantasizes, believing he can enact change, like when he stages a hunger strike against Bayview's food in "Welcome to Bayview." Diana is the quintessential pessimist, her nose always buried in a novel or in a game of solitaire to pass time until death. She's bitter towards people who "revere everything ancient except themselves." Diana and Tom bond over broken families and a love of sarcasm, and their unlikely friendship is both realistic and entertaining. Plots against their refusal to accept senior citizen status grow heated, as in "The Psychiatrist," when Harvey, Bayview's manager, aims to prove Tom and Diana mentally incompetent in order to confiscate their rights. In "The Helicopter," Tom and Diana sneak a ride in a helicopter, causing panic and chaos amongst their caretakers. Instead of poking fun at the elderly, as does the other British comedy about an old couple, Keeping Up Appearances, Waiting for God satirically highlights the absurd notion that our elders are incapable of living intelligently. --Trinie Dalton

Customer Reviews: Read 44 more reviews...

5 out of 5 stars

Fun approach to aging April 24, 2008
Two elderly persons become neighbors at a rest home in England. The man is a dreamer and sees the good in everything. The woman is bitter about life. All her friends are dead and gone and she never had children, so has no one to turn to in her older years. She says what she thinks and is very determined to do right where she sees a wrong. The pair are hillarious as they even each other out in their day to day dealings with a greedy and uncaring rest home Director. It is well worth watching.

5 out of 5 stars

Indispensable for us Baby Boomers April 17, 2008
This series has all of the delightful, slightly wicked humor we expect from our British comedies. Its edge and irony and humor are the best kind - too close to truth not to be funny. Just a little larger than life.
As our parents get older and we get older this just gets funnier.

5 out of 5 stars

Waiting for God is a hoot! January 25, 2008
I've been a big fan of this Brit-com for years! The characters are wacky, witty, well-drawn, often poignant, sometimes philosophical. I have worked in retirement homes, but those were nothing like this! I sure wish they had been! For all their outrageousness, the characters are very likable and endearing--even Harvey "the Idiot" Baines. I can't wait to own the entire series!

5 out of 5 stars

Great Series January 18, 2008
We really enjoy the Brit com's and it is great to not be at the mercy of the PBS scheduling.

4 out of 5 stars

Waitingt For God October 2, 2007
It's a great British comedy. I live in a retirement resort in Medford, OR and we see how close it is to what a retirement community can actually be like.

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