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Shirley Valentine is a British romantic comedy-drama film based on Willy Russell's play of the same name. It stars Pauline Collins as a middle-aged housewife who finds herself and falls in love with a Greek tavern owner on a holiday in Greece.
Shirley Valentine is a one-character play by Willy Russell. [1] [2] Taking the form of a monologue by a middle-aged, working class Liverpool housewife, it focuses on her life before and after a transforming holiday abroad.
- Willy Russell
- 1988
Shirley Valentine: Directed by Lewis Gilbert. With Pauline Collins, Tom Conti, Julia McKenzie, Alison Steadman. Shirley is a 42-year-old bored Liverpudlian housewife who takes a holiday trip to Greece and meets a local man who bolsters her self-confidence.
- (9K)
- Comedy, Drama, Romance
- Lewis Gilbert
- 1989-08-30
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.
Shirley Valentine (1989) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
Shirley Valentine Bradshaw (Pauline Collins) is a 42-year-old housewife living in suburban Liverpool, England, returns home where she has a wide-ranging conversation with her kitchen wall while preparing chips and egg for her husband Joe's (Bernard Hill) dinner.
Shirley Valentine. Feeling trapped in a world of domesticity, Shirley (Pauline Collins), a housewife from Liverpool, England, needs a change in her life before she has another conversation with...
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- Romance, Comedy
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