A 1950s London cleaning lady falls in love with an haute couture dress by Christian Dior and decides to gamble everything for the sake of this folly.
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Lesley Manville
Ada Harris
Isabelle Huppert
Claudine Colbert
Lambert Wilson
Marquis de Chassagne
Alba Baptista
Natasha
Lucas Bravo
André Fauvel
Ellen Thomas
Vi Butterfield
Rose Williams
Pamela Penrose
Jason Isaacs
Archie
Anna Chancellor
Lady Dant
Roxane Duran
Marguerite
Director
Anthony Fabian
Screenplay
Carroll Cartwright
Tagline
"Follow your dream."
Status
Released
Original Language
EN
Revenue
$31,179,316
Production
Superbe Films, Hero Squared, Elysian Films, uMedia, Moonriver TV, National Film Institute Hungary, Entertainment One Features
Peter McGinn
August 14, 2022
I don’t know if I would have been quite so anxious to see this movie, or if I would have liked it as much, if Lesley Manville was not playing Mrs. Harris, but fortunately she was. An unlikely confluence of events happen to and around Mrs. Harris that seem to add up to an unlikely scenario of her saving money to buy the Dior dress, such as her winning the football pools (lottery). But science fi...
CinemaSerf
October 21, 2022
Lesley Manville is clearly having some good fun playing the eponymous, widowed, wartime cleaner. One of her clients, "Lady Dant" (Anna Chancellor) is not so hot when it comes to settling her bills, but she does have a Dior dress - and at £500 this is a dream for "Mrs. Harris". Determined to have one for herself, she works extra hard, saves her pension - even has a flutter on the dogs before arrivi...
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