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Shirley Valentine
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Overview

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7.1/10   2,649 votes
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Director:
Writers:
Willy Russell (play)
Willy Russell (screenplay)
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Release Date:
30 August 1989 (USA) more
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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:
Engaging and entertaining from start to finish more (34 total)

Cast

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

Joanna Lumley ... Marjorie Majors
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 Valentine
Catharine Duncan ... Young Marjorie Majors
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Additional Details

Runtime:
108 min
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Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
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Trivia:
The original Broadway production of "Shirley Valentine" by Willy Russell opened at the Booth Theater in New York on February 16, 1989, ran for 324 performances and received a nominated for the 1989 Tony Award for the Best Play. Pauline Collins won the 1989 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play and recreated her stage role in the movie. more
Goofs:
Audio/visual unsynchronized: In the US version of the film, when Gillian encounters Shirley choosing underwear for her holiday the phrase "garter belt" is dubbed over the words "suspender belt". 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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15 out of 16 people found the following comment useful.
Engaging and entertaining from start to finish, 6 March 2001
10/10
Author: aromatic-2 (aromatic@ivillage.com) from New York, NY

I certainly had no trouble relating to Shirley Valentine. In fact, in a lot of this movie, I thought she was talking straight from my head. She sees the humour in all the humdrum b.s. of life, and comes out triumphant. Excellent job by director Lewis Gilbert in adapting one-woman show into a movie that did not feel the least bit claustrophobic. Highly imaginative. I've seen it 3 times now, and will watch again the next time it's on: 10/10.

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