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Shirley Valentine (DVD) (*)

$21.99

Screened, competed or awarded at:
BAFTA Awards
Golden Globes
Oscar Academy Awards
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Surround )
English ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
104 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1989 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Lewis Gilbert

Written By:
Lewis Gilbert
Willy Russell

Actors:
Pauline Collins ..... Shirley Valentine-Bradshaw
Tom Conti ..... Costas Caldes
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 Bradshaw
Ken Sharrock ..... Sydney
Karen Craig ..... Thelma
Gareth Jefferson ..... Brian Bradshaw
Gillian Kearney ..... Young Shirley
Catharine Duncan ..... Young Marjorie Majors

Synopsis:

Since its London and Broadway stage debut, playwright Willy Russell's Shirley Valentine has proven an excellent showcase for any number of talented actresses (Loretta Swit won the 1989 Sarah Siddons Award for her work in the Chicago production). In the film version of Shirley Valentine, Pauline Collins re-creates the role that had previously brought her theatrical fame and a Tony Award. Spending the bulk of the film speaking directly to the audience, the titular Shirley (Collins), a middle-aged Liverpool housewife, reveals her innermost thoughts and fears in a manner that is both insouciant and poignant. Once an incorrigible anti-establishment rebel, Shirley now chafes under the plodding insensitivity of her husband Joe (Bernard Hill). Her life enters a new and exciting phase when, after her best friend Jane (Alison Steadman) wins an all-expenses-paid vacation to Greece, Shirley is given the opportunity to travel to faraway places without her husband. Shirley Valentine represents the second felicitous collaboration between playwright Willy Russell and director Lewis Gilbert; the first was the equally marvelous Educating Rita (1983).

Shirley's a middle-aged Liverpool housewife, who finds herself talking to the wall while she prepares her husband's chip'n'egg, wondering what happened to her life. She compares scenes in her current life with what she used to be like and feels she's stagnated and in a rut. But when her best friend wins an all-expenses-paid vacation to Greece for two, Shirley begins to see the world, and herself, in a different light.

This product was added to our catalog on Saturday 16 December, 2006.

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