Shirley Valentine is a 1989 British/American dramedy film directed by Lewis Gilbert. The screenplay by Willy Russell is based on his 1986 one-character play of the same title.
Shirley Valentine-Bradshaw is a fortysomething Liverpudlian housewife whose family pays her so little attention she frequently talks to her kitchen walls in order to keep a conversation going. When her friend Jane wins a trip for two to Greece, Shirley uncharacteristically ...
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Shirley Valentine is a 1989 British/American dramedy film directed by Lewis Gilbert. The screenplay by Willy Russell is based on his 1986 one-character play of the same title.
Shirley Valentine-Bradshaw is a fortysomething Liverpudlian housewife whose family pays her so little attention she frequently talks to her kitchen walls in order to keep a conversation going. When her friend Jane wins a trip for two to Greece, Shirley uncharacteristically puts herself first and accepts her invitation to join her.
Upon their arrival in Mykonos, Jane abandons her companion for a romance with a Greek olive magnate. On her own and bored with the fellow Brits staying at her hotel, Shirley ventures forth in search of adventure and finds it in the form of Costas, a seductive taverna owner who brings her out of her shell. As their relationship develops, she finds herself taking stock of her life after years of marital neglect and mundane domesticity and rediscovering the woman she used to be. When her...
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