Judi Dench as Elizabeth; Ian Holm as Patrick; Leslie Caron as Madeleine; Olympia Dukakis as Dinah; Cleo Laine as Gwen; Joan Sims as Betty; Billie Whitelaw as Evelyn; June Whitfield as Annie; Thelma Ruby as Vera; Millie Findlay as Joanna; Felicity Dean as Patricia; Valentine Pelka as Leslie; James Cosmo as McNab
Rating
PG-13 (Parents Strongly Cautioned)
Cinematography
Language
English
Plot
After Elizabeth's husband dies, she begins to play her tenor saxophone again, and remembers when she was 15 and a member of the Blonde Bombshells, an all-girl (with one exception) swing band. Accompanied by the exception and urged on by her grand-daughter, Elizabeth hunts up all the old members of the band and urges them to perform, and in doing so, learns more than she knew about the band, its members, the roses on the drum set, and herself--the last of the Blonde Bombshells.