Mrs Caldicot's Cabbage War is a 2002 British comedy-drama film, directed by Ian Sharp and starring Pauline Collins, John Alderton and Peter Capaldi.

It is the story about a woman, Thelma Caldicot, who is coerced by her manipulative son Derek and daughter-in-law to move into a run-down nursing home, owned by Derek's employer, after the death of her bullying husband.

After having been medicated by the staff to stay calm, she finally incites her fellow inmates to revolt.

The film premiered in June 2002 at the International Filmfest Emden,[1] where it came second in the competition for the Bernhard Wicki Prize.

[3] The film had its first wide cinema release in United Kingdom and Ireland, where it opened on 31 January 2003.