Fireworks for Elspeth

Romance, TV Movie

🎬 Critics Choice Nominee

Director Alvin Rakoff

Status Released

Release Date 1983-10-02

Storyline

Will they starve her? Shave her head? Force her to wear a hair shirt? Elspeth's friends and family react with horror, grief and even derision to her desire to become a nun. She experiences her parents' hurt, her fiancee's feeling of betrayal, her friends' incomprehension - and her own obstinate joy.