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Overview

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Writer:
Shelagh Delaney (writer)
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Release Date:
9 August 1985 (USA) more
Plot:
Ruth Ellis lives with her 10-year old son Andy next to a night club. One night she meets David Blakely... more | add synopsis
Awards:
3 wins more
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(2 articles)
Unfulfilled promise
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Mike Newell's DANCE WITH A STRANGER is a drama based on the obsessive and ultimately destructive love affair between a wealthy young British man and a 30 something madame. more (14 total)

Cast

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Miranda Richardson ... Ruth Ellis

Rupert Everett ... David Blakeley

Ian Holm ... Desmond Cussen
Stratford Johns ... Morrie Conley

Joanne Whalley ... Christine

Tom Chadbon ... Anthony Findlater
Jane Bertish ... Carole Findlater
David Troughton ... Cliff Davis
Matthew Carroll ... Andy
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
David Beale ... Man in Little Club
Charon Bourke ... Ballroom Singer
Charles Cork ... Policeman #2
Patrick Field ... Builder
Sallie Anne Field ... Claudette
Ian Hurley ... Policeman #1
Miki Iveria ... Landlady
Michael Jenn ... Wilf
Susan Kyd ... Barbara

Lesley Manville ... Maryanne
Tony Mathews ... Customer 'Magdala'
Nicholas McArdle ... Landlord (Country Pub)
Lizzie McKenzie ... Woman
Paul Mooney ... Clive Gunnell
Martin Murphy ... Roy
Colin Rix ... Landlord 'Magdala'
Alan Thompson ... Ralph
Tracy-Louise Ward ... Girl with David Blakely
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Additional Details

Runtime:
102 min | Argentina:106 min
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Color (Technicolor)
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1.66 : 1 more
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Ruth Ellis was the last woman to be executed in the United Kingdom. more
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Anachronisms: Ruth switches on a radio which begins to play immediately. In those times, vacuum-tube radios had to warm up for about 20 seconds. more
Quotes:
Anthony Findlater: She
[his wife]
Anthony Findlater: eats like a bird...
Ruth Ellis: Really? My son tells me birds eat twice their own weight every day.
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Mike Newell's DANCE WITH A STRANGER is a drama based on the obsessive and ultimately destructive love affair between a wealthy young British man and a 30 something madame., 22 August 2005
Author: Michele_Phillips from United States

Although best known for his blockbuster hits FOUR WEDDINGS AND A FUNERAL and LOVE ACTUALLY, Mike Newell does a splendid job of bringing this tragic tale to the screen. The cinematography is lush and the recreation of London in the 1950's, both sets and costumes, is brilliantly realized. Obsession can be a difficult subject to tackle and yet one is compelled by the script, the visuals, and most of all the consummate acting, to see this affair through to it's conclusion. Miranda Richardson is the woman trapped by her need to make a good living and her inability to disentangle herself from the clutches of a destructive affair. An incredibly young Ruppert Everett and the redoubtable Ian Holm make up the other two sides of this twisted triangle. While all three actors shine, Richardson's portrayal is one of an individual tortured by a relationship that can never be and at a loss to explain why it endures to herself or anyone else. Not for the faint of heart but well worth the effort. Based on a true story.

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