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Shirley Valentine | 
 enlarge | Director: Lewis Gilbert (ii)
Actors: Pauline Collins, Tom Conti, Julia Mckenzie, Alison Steadman, Joanna Lumley
Studio: Paramount
Category: DVD
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Rating:  168 reviews
Sales Rank: 609
Format: Color, Dolby, Dvd-video, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), French (Original Language), English (Subtitled)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 108
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: 097363224846
UPC: 097363224846
EAN: 0097363224846
ASIN: B000MGBSIU
Theatrical Release Date: August 30, 1989
Release Date: May 1, 2007
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Product Description
A bored English housewife accepts a friend's invitation to vacation in Greece where she quickly recaptures her rebellious youthful spirit and begins a wild fling with a Greek man.
Genre: Feature Film-Comedy
Rating: R
Release Date: 1-MAY-2007
Media Type: DVD
Amazon.com
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 Stills from Shirley Valentine (click for larger image)
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DVD: Shirley Valentine September 2, 2008
Excellent flick. Ordering this favorite DVD at a very good price with excellent delivery service - how could I have gone wrong?! This was a great choice of transactions.
great movie about getting the most out of life July 30, 2008
Light hearted look at middle class ennui and a bright way out for the imaginative. A good lesson for us all. Enjoy it all the way and enjoy this movie. It really is 4+ for me, not just a plain 4. Pauline Collins was terrific. It feels as if you are her best friend and she is guiding you through her life. Oh heck, give it a 5.
Highly recommend July 30, 2008
This is my second copy of Shirley Valentine. It was recommended to me over ten years ago when I was feeling like I didn't know who I was, Mother, daughter, sister, or wife. I was performing all my roles well, but lost the most important identity, ME. I often find myself watching this movie to get a little boost now and again. It's a great way to reconnect with ones self.
A thoroughly enjoyable taste of Mykonos, Greece...but hold the retsina July 27, 2008
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
With 146 five star reviews ahead of mine, I don't think I can add much to convince anyone that this is an absolutely wonderful movie. In fact, I'm not going to try. Suffice it to say, my wife and I thoroughly enjoyed watching Shirley "grow back" from the mature, home-and-hearth-weary, 42-year-old British housewife she is to the young schoolgirl she once was without all the insecurity and self-consciousness that comes with adolescence. Too, we loved seeing the beautiful Greek isle of Mykonos and would love to be able to visit Greece one day. (I had spent one month in Glyfada, 40 minutes or so from Athens, a long time ago and this movie brought back memories of what I loved so much about Greece and its people at the time...except for the resinated Greek wine.)
It's refreshing to see adults acting like adults, even though they are actors following a script (and many scripts made for the BBC and other British Production Companies seem to be geared to the "mature" viewer), who don't talk down to the audience or spell everything out for the "slow-witted", assumed to be typically American.
I highly recommend this movie. I think Pauline Collins and Tom Conti were perfect together as Shirley and Costas.
A warm, bold and delightfull film July 17, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
You rarely come across such films, and those films which are very rare to hear about are considered the best ones. "Shirley Valentine", the film throws light on every ordinary woman's life, it throws light on the fact that even these women have dreams, even these women wish to make life large. The scenario of Greece is mesmerising, I was very much overwhelmed. Excellent chemistry between Tom Conti and Pauline Collins, she was very adorable in the role of Shirley. Its truely a beautifull film, perhaps words alone wont be able to describe this film. Thank you amazon.com once again.
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