Shirley Valentine (DVD)

...themselves, even. Willy Russel, in Shirley Valentine, writes about a woman who wants to be who she was. Not looks wise. Not hair wise. Not even boobs wise! No, she just wants to be able to be that woman again in her heart, and be Shirley Valentine once again. Shirley Valentine is one of those deep, light-hearted films for everyone. It’s a lovely tale, but it’s got a heck of a story or two, and it’s an absolute gem. It was performed ...
...also wrote the stage play). Shirley Valentine will touch anyone who has a heart. It’s a woman who wants to be who she was. Someone who was she, before she was what she is now; someone who can live life to the full… ♦ ♦ The Plot ♦ ♦ Shirley has been married to Joe for many years. She got married. Moved into a new home. Had kids, and that was it. It seemed as if her life stopped and she didn’t have anything ...

Mattroberts 16.08.2003 · Read full review
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Review of Shirley Valentine (DVD)

...The Story ======== Shirley Bradshaw (Pauline Collins) is a middle aged English housewife who has lost the person who she once was as a girl; she was Shirley the Brave, Shirley Valentine. Through Shirley we get introduced to her children (Brian & Miranda), friends and husband, Joe. We are also taken back to her teenage rebellious years and how he used to pick on Marjory Majors. In a turn of events Shirley meets up with Marjory in her later years ...
...Shirley has two friends in her life Jane and the wall; she talks the wall quite regularly. At one point Joe even starts it as well! Shirley's friend Jane wins a competition for a fortnight's holiday in Greece for 2 and she wants Shirley to go with her. Shirley desperately wants to go but feels that she is too old until her neighbour Gillian comes over. Jane abandons Shirley at the airport in Greece and on her own see discovers herself again and ...

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Review of Shirley Valentine (DVD)

Shirley Valentine has to be one of my all time favourite films. This film has several layers and whilst it's funny, a little rude and totally eccentric, it's also moving and heart warming. In fact, you grow to love Shirley Valentine so much so that you feel sorry for her in the end. It's true that all Shirley has ever wanted in her life is to be herself, but because of her demanding husband who values her cooking more than her company and her children ...
...to be herself, to be Shirley Valentine. Shirley Valentine is in every sense a brave and loving woman with such a warm heart of gold. She cares not only for her family, but for everyone she comes into contact with. Her family life is in such distress that she's very brave to deal with the stress that she faces. When her journey takes her towards independence and sexual awakening she leaves behind her drab yellow and green kitchen in England for the ...

Mickie26 02.09.2003 · Read full review
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Review of Shirley Valentine (DVD)

Shirley Valentine is a truly heartwarming tale about a forty something housewife who has reached a point in her life where she has stagnated in a world of supermarket shopping and talking to the wall. She is captured perfectly by Pauline Collins who is comical as well as moving. Her mundane life will surely strike a chord with many women and I would have to say that I feel the film would have more appeal for a female than a male. The film opens ...
...her selfish daughter. Shirley is persuaded by her friend Jane (played by the brilliant Alison Steadman) to accompany her to Greece on a holiday won in a magazine competition. Although Shirley is initially hesitant about the reaction of Joe, there is a sense of a desperate need to reclaim her rapidly diminishing identity. She recalls her disillusionment at school and is horrified to run into Marjorie Majors (played by super glam Joanna Lumley) However ...

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Review of Shirley Valentine (DVD)

I FOUND THIS FILM TO BE OKAY.A BORED WOMAN DECIDES TO TAKE A TRIP TO GREECE,AND ENDS UP WITH MORE THAN SHE BARGAINED FOR.SHE GRABS THE ATTENTION OF A MAN,AND GOES FOR IT.SHE GETS SO SWEPT UP IN THE ROMANCE AND THE SURROUNDINGS.WHEN SHE GETS BACK HOME TO HER DULL LIFE,SHE DECIDES IT IS NOT FOR HER.I DID LIKE THIS FILM BECAUSE IT HAPPENS TO SO MANY WOMEN WHO GET CARRIED AWAY WITH HOLIDAY ROMANCES.I THINK IT PORTRAITS A GOOD LESSON FOR WOMEN WHO FEEL ...

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