Jennifer Saunders’ Nurse Gilpin works on a geriatric ward that’s under threat.
WARNER BROS
Age,
they say, is only a number. Were the combined years of Allelujah’s ensemble cast to be tallied, though, the resulting digits would be well in their thousands, the likes of Dame Judi Dench (88), Sir Derek Jacobi (84) and Pinocchio’s David Bradley (80) ensuring this wry portrait of an endangered Yorkshire hospital’s busy geriatric ward rings resoundingly true from morning bed bath to lights-out nightcap.