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Shirley Valentine

United Kingdom

1989-08-30(US)
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Romance,
Comedy
▪ 1h-48m

62^%

User
Score

No one thought she had the courage, the nerve, or the lingerie.

Overview

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.

Lewis GilbertDirector
Marilyn BergmanLyricist
Marvin HamlischSongs
Alan BergmanLyricist
Lewis GilbertProducer
John DarkExecutive Producer

Top Billed Cast

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

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A review by CinemaSerf

7.0

Written by CinemaSerf on 2022-07-03

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...

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