Taglines: No one thought she had the courage. The nerve. Or the lingerie.
Shirley Valentine movie synopsis. 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.
Shirley Valentine is an award-winning 1989 British romantic comedy-drama film directed by Lewis Gilbert. The screenplay by Willy Russell is based on his 1986 one-character play of the same title, which follows middle aged Shirley Valentine in an unexpected discovery of herself, and rekindling of her childhood dreams and youthful love of life.
Pauline Collins reprises the titular lead role as middle-aged housewife Shirley, which she had previously played in the stage production in London’s West End and on Broadway, and Tom Conti plays Costas Dimitriades, the owner of a Greek tavern with whom she has a holiday romance.
Shirley Valentine (1989)
Directed by: Lewis Gilbert
Starring: Pauline Collins, Tom Conti, Julia McKenzie, Alison Steadman, Joanna Lumley, Sylvia Syms, Bernard Hill, George Costigan, Anna Keaveney, Tracie Bennett
Screenplay by: Willy Russell
Production Design by: John Stoll
Cinematography by: Alan Hume
Film Editing by: Lesley Walker
Costume Design by: Candy Paterson
Music by: Marvin Hamlisch
Distributed by: Paramount Pictures
Release Date: August 30, 1989
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