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Overview

User Rating:
7.1/10   2,543 votes
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Director:
Lewis Gilbert
Writers:
Willy Russell (play)
Willy Russell (screenplay)
Contact:
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Release Date:
30 August 1989 (USA) more
Genre:
Comedy | Drama | Romance more
Tagline:
No one thought she had the courage. The nerve. Or the lingerie.
Plot:
Shirley's a middle-aged Liverpool housewife, who finds herself talking to the wall while she prepares her husband's chip'n'egg... more | add synopsis
Awards:
Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 4 wins & 7 nominations more
User Comments:
The greatest journey leads us to ourselves more

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)
Pauline Collins ... Shirley Valentine-Bradshaw
Tom Conti ... Costas
Julia McKenzie ... Gillian
Alison Steadman ... Jane

Joanna Lumley ... Marjorie
Sylvia Syms ... Headmistress

Bernard Hill ... Joe Bradshaw
George Costigan ... Dougie
Anna Keaveney ... Jeanette
Tracie Bennett ... Millandra
Ken Sharrock ... Sydney
Karen Craig ... Thelma
Gareth Jefferson ... Brian
Gillian Kearney ... Young Shirley
Catharine Duncan ... Young Marjorie
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Additional Details

Runtime:
108 min
Country:
UK | USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Dolby

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
Pauline Collins originated the role of Shirley Valentine in the original London production of the play. more
Goofs:
Factual errors: After Shirley watches the sunset on the beach, a full moon appears where the sun just set which is impossible. If the moon is this close to the sun only a small crescent will be visible more
Quotes:
[first lines]
Shirley Valentine: Hiya Wall.
[to the camera]
Shirley Valentine: Well what's wrong with that? There's a woman three doors down talks to her microwave. Talking to a microwave! Wall, what's the world coming to ?
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Movie Connections:
Spoofed in A Handful of Summers (1991) (V) more
Soundtrack:
THE GIRL WHO USED TO BE ME more

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5 out of 6 people found the following comment useful:-
The greatest journey leads us to ourselves, 7 August 2000
8/10
Author: Brigid O Sullivan (wisewebwoman) from Toronto, Canada

Shirley had lost herself in the humdrum lifestyle of a housewife with kids grown and an indifferent husband stuck in his own boring routine. She strikes out on a vacation to Greece to get in touch with the girl she once was. The show worked better as a theatre piece - as a one woman show. Here it gets cluttered up with a lot of characters and Shirley's asides to the camera do not always work. Pauline Collins is as great in the role as she was on stage. Greek men seeing this must cringe at the Tom Conte caricature of a Greek lover. I rated it an 8 for Pauline's performance and the music.

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