Wondering what has happened to herself, now feeling stagnant and in a rut, Shirley Valentine finds herself regularly talking to the wall while preparing her husband's chips and egg. When her best friend wins a trip-for-two to Greece Shirley begins to see the world, and herself, in a different light.
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Pauline Collins
Shirley Valentine-Bradshaw
Tom Conti
Costas Demitriadis
Julia McKenzie
Gillian
Alison Steadman
Jane
Joanna Lumley
Marjorie Majors
Sylvia Syms
Headmistress
Bernard Hill
Joe Bradshaw
George Costigan
Dougie
Anna Keaveney
Jeanette
Tracie Bennett
Millandra
Director
Lewis Gilbert
Screenplay
Willy Russell
Tagline
"No one thought she had the courage, the nerve, or the lingerie."
Status
Released
Original Language
EN
Production
Paramount Pictures
CinemaSerf
July 3, 2022
Willy Russell adapted his own play for this tour de force from Pauline Collins as the bored housewife who spends much of her time at home guzzling wine and talking to the wall before her husband (Bernard Hill) comes home from work for his supper at 6pm prompt! When her friend "Jane" (Alison Steadman) wins an holiday on Mykonos for a fortnight, she invites "Shirley" to accompany her. She initially ...
kevin2019
November 1, 2024
"Shirley Valentine" is a hugely entertaining film populated by richly layered and vividly drawn characters and fortunately it successfully manages to completely depart from its small scale theatrical roots to become a genuine motion picture treat. It essentially covers the same basic themes as "Educating Rita" (1983) and it is just as successful at doing this the second time around. The central ch...
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