regarding time frame
The film yentyl screened at the cinema after the completed short life is shown was released in the UK in 1984.
Interesting to see that people were already exploiting the elderly in care homes 30 years ago. Incidentally was the older brother engaged in some other criminal activity other than pirate videos as that seemed an awful lot of cash he stashed in the safe early in the film? I assume that as the mothers partner was based in Spain - the Costa del crime perhaps? - that he was a criminal that that the elder brother was also involved in crime?