Shirley Valentine
by Lewis Gilbert (II)
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Actor: Alison Steadman, Joanna Lumley, Julia McKenzie, Pauline Collins, Tom ContiDirector: Lewis Gilbert (II)
Brand: Paramount
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Subtitled)
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 108 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-05-01
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Paramount
DVD Reviews of Shirley Valentine
DVD Review: Great Item
Summary: 5 Stars
Item was exactly how it was described. Shipping was a little slow, but that was USPS not the vendor. DVD Review: What every married women should see!!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
I was so happy to get Shirley Valentine on DVD....I had taped it years ago and had it in my collection, but the tape was no longer viewable. The DVD is clear and crisp and so enjoyable to watch. One of my all-time favorites.
Pauline Collins is just wonderful and hysterical.
DVD Review: Shirley Valentine
Summary: 5 Stars
It's an older movie with a timeless, universal message for women on how to get your 'groove back'! It takes place in London, Shirley is a spirited young woman who ultimately & happily marries, has the two kids, grows them up & in the process loses her identity & spirit. Along the way,her husband loses his sense of humor & zest for life & Shirley is reduced to talking to her kitchen wall. Her chance to regain her spirit comes when a girlfriend offers her a fortnight trip to Greece.
Shirley Valentine, is a poignant, intelligent & funny movie with a message for all.
DVD Review: midlife crisis the movie
Summary: 3 Stars
A feminine liberation type movie about a British housewife who discovers on a Greek vacation that she is something more than the life she had bought into.
Women seem to make it hard enough on their men without
this kind of movie making the situation worse?
My take on the movie is that wives running off can cause some real
family disasters.
DVD Review: Shirley Valentine
Summary: 5 Stars
Thanks again for the fast, hassle-free service. The movie is hilarious and a little sad at the same time. I could relate to it quite well. I watched it years ago and seeing it again renewed my spirit!
Description of Shirley Valentine
In the role that won her Broadway's acclaimed Tony Award, Pauline Collins is the hilariously endearing Shirley Valentine, a wisecracking, completely unpredictable English housewife who proves it's never too late to recapture your dreams. Bored with her suburban life, Shirley takes a chance on adventure when a friend invites her on a vacation to Greece. Within no time she's back to her rebellious teenage roots, saying yes to a wild fling with a handsome rogue (Tom Conti) and the life she's always wanted.As movie midlife crises go, Shirley Valentine's is a doozy. A bored Northern England housewife, wondering what her life is about and how to navigate around her clueless husband, Shirley would be at her wits' end--except that she knows how to dream big. As played by the incomparable Pauline Collins (who created the role on Broadway, and won a Tony for it), Shirley embraces not only her own constricted life, but the dreams of the big, beautiful world beyond it.
Directed by Lewis Gilbert (Educating Rita), Shirley Valentine is an anthem to the freedom of the soul--with a generous dose of salt of the earth. As she assesses her life, Shirley's humor never fails her: "I think sex is like supermarkets, you know, overrated. Just a lot of pushing and shoving and you still come out with very little at the end." Yet Collins' Shirley gets as much out of defending her right to her dream (a sunny holiday in Greece) as she does realizing it, and that makes for much of the glow of the film. For while Shirley has a cinematic romance on her vacation (Tom Conti plays the dreamboat), the affair is more of a metaphor for what Shirley insists on having in her real daily life. Watch for Joanna Lumley in a delicious cameo, pre-Ab Fab. And embrace this Valentine, and share it with those you love, all year round. --A.T. Hurley
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